Answer For Jay
After speaking with the owners of Saco River Auction and the owner of SGC I have your answer.
Firstly SGC has stated that as long as this item is not removed from the holder, SGC will stand behind the item(there Guarantee is listed online)100%. They are not willing to open themselves up to potential problems by cards being broken out of the holder, possibly switched or tampered with, alleged experts of the buyers choice, rendering their own opinion six months or even a year down the road, and other potential problems. They are convinced that the work they did was justified and righteous and this is authentic.
Saco River Auction's official stance on this is the same as all of our other auctions. This card has been authenticated by two of the best companies around and we know this card is real. However we also are not comfortable with potential bad deeds that can take place after the card is out of our control and out of the holder..Instances such as buyers remorse, unqualified opinions from other experts, switched cards and more. Auction houses have items authenticated, because we are not the experts on this type of item. Therefore the guarantee must always rest with the authenticators, SGC, PSA, JSA etc. Our sale on February 6 and all sales after and prior to, are as is where is with no warranties or guarantees. We are not going to change our company policy for one item(although a fantastic item) out of the thousands of items we sell. This would open the door for literally tens of thousands of items that we sell every year.
I would hope that this would not dissuade any bidders on this, but this card has been proven to be a real 19th century albumen and we are happy to sell it.
Troy
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