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Originally Posted by Hammerin'Hank
The stories of corners and edges being touched up with markers is scaring me from buying a set of all raw black border cards.
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Are you speaking in general or from what you heard about NESC? I've never heard of NESC touching up cards. However, I have heard of others touching up cards - especially '71s.
When building my '71 set, I found it was easy to spot touched-up cards (fortunately I didn't end up with many) by stacking them raw (a small stack, like 50 or so) and then taking the stack and looking at all 4 sides. The black Sharpie will bleed though to the edges and they are easy to spot and pick out when in a stack with clean cards.