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Kevin Cummings...but whoever owns a relic can choose to do with it whatever they want. It's like that article on Lew Lipset's site about how Don McPherson trimmed his Old Judges so they'd fit nice and neat into the plastic sheets he stored them in. I certainly wouldn't do that, but that's just me.
That having been said, no one at Topps or Upper Deck or any other company that does relic pieces asked you or me what we thought. Not that they would have listened anyway. My personal opinion is that significant relics all belong in the Hall of Fame or should be kept intact by a single owner to be saved for posterity.
But since someone already went and destroyed the relic anyway, why not share in a piece of it?