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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

Unless and until it can be proven that a card with a crease removed has the same structural integrity than the card before it received the crease, thus not making it more prone to future creasing, removing the crease is an alteration of the card that in my view must be disclosed to a perspective buyer and that should either lower the grade the card would receive or result in a qualifier being put on the unchanged grade. The rationale behind this response is that with impaired structural intergrity, the card is not its original state. Having said that, even if it could be proven that the structural integrity was not impaired, it is still possible that the removal still altered the card, but for other reasons. For example, if the removal changes the texture of the card or flattens it, then because the card has not been returned to its original state I would still regard the card as having been altered.