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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
LOL. You're funny. I only "ordered" you to stop making bad comparisons.
The only answer that doesn't involve destroying them that makes any sense is to treat them like any seized asset and the government sells them at auction. And then what do you think happens with them?
That's why I think they have to be destroyed.
To answer your irrelevant hypothetical, if the Gretzky Wagner was seized as evidence it would STILL be a different scenario as that card will never be as anonymous as the cards in the current scandal. There's almost no conceivable way that the card could be sold fraudulently in the future because ostensibly anyone interested and able to purchase it would be well aware of it's history. You can't say that about some random 1952 Topps Mantle of which there are thousands graded and it's not inconceivable that there are nice examples that still aren't graded. So 20 years from now a card the government sold as altered is sold as legit because it's impossible to trace. Something the Wagner will never be.
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Not all seized assets get destroyed.
https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository...ollection/view
What has happened with some of the stamp fakers things is an interesting thing to think about. Many have been donated to the Philatelic Foundation which uses them as a reference collection.
Sperati was busted by French customs for exporting valuable items, but got away by proving they were forgeries he'd made.
And the British Philatelic Association bought his inventory, dies and equipment, then produced a book of his forgeries using clearly marked examples.
http://catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol1/html/sperati.htm
Fournier operated openly for years, and his inventory and equipment were bought when his company closed to prevent it falling into the "wrong hands" And much of the stock was used to create albums for reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franço...(stamp_forger)
Some Sperati and Fournier stamps sell for more than the originals..
If our hobby had an organization like the PF, or APS this problem could be easily solved. But it doesn't , and having the stuff go to PSA as a reference collection just wouldn't work at all.