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Chris CountsCall me naive, but what would be the incentive for a grading company to avoid authenticating something like my cards? I can see why they might want to stay on the good side of major dealers and auction houses, but it would seem to me that grading cards like these would be a win-win situation for any company trying to establish itself as the expert in the industry. Perhaps they're just trying to avoid controversy and playing it safe ...
Anyway, I posted the Demaree card tonight. In my opinion, it's the card in the batch of seven that is the most impressive. This is the card SGC currently has in its possession. I challenge anyone to explain to me how the color was added at this scale, which I believe is simply too small for the human hand to achieve with this degree of detail. It is my theory the color was added to a large, glossy photo (8x10, 5x7?) and the image was reduced to the size of a card before it was printed ...