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Glen VDavid, good point - sorry everyone, didn't mean to ask someone to break the law.
Andy, thanks for the facts, I shouldn't have been passing on 3rd hand info I wasn't sure of.
Gary, don't have answers to your questions, but will give you some more stuff to ponder. I'm sure plenty of us have cards that have had writing erased, paper removed from the backs, or creases pressed out. When does it go to far? If a conservator can remove writing without adding to the card, is that wrong? And how do we know which cards have been restored - have that techniques become so advanced that we can't detect restoration work? Who's to say the best dealers know if a card has had work done to it. If a card is graded, do they check it out like they would if it were raw? If that article is correct, there are a lot of graded cards that have been "fixed" - how many of them have board members spotted?