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Originally Posted by STL1944
Question for those of you who know more than me (which is a low bar!). Do cards have unique "fingerprints?" I am thinking about the recent post of the trimmed WWG Joe DiMaggio, where the poster highlighted all of the various print defects, card stock variances, etc.
If these are truly unique, wouldn't TPGs be able to match a newly submitted card to ones they have already scanned? This might at least slow down some of the crack, trim and resubs...
I realize this might not work on some of the modern cards but would this work on vintage?
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There was a thread on here (maybe someone else can find it and post a link) that touched on how with modern technology, AI, and all, that supposedly you can take a magnified enough image of any card and find that the markings, print dots, pattern, whatever you want to call it, are when viewed at such a magnified level totally unique for every single card, like a human fingerprint. The BODA guys do their work based on only what the human eye can actually see. My further understanding is the technology and ability to do this already exists. In fact, thought I heard/read somewhere that Genamint, a company acquired not long ago by Collectors Universe (PSA's parent company/owner), already has this technology and ability. Now, what CU/PSA may or may not decide to do with this technology/ability has yet to be seen and is anybody's guess. However, hoping that it may be used to effectively find and out card doctors and alterations may be a pipe dream. To actually work you'd need to have all cards scanned and saved using this technology before they were ever subject to alteration. Who is going to go through the trouble, time, and expense to get everyone to bring in and submit all their cards for such a scan? And then who again will be responsible to go through the time trouble, and expense of getting cards being sold, graded, or whatever re-scanned and then compared to some universal database to see if they have possibly been altered? You'd need to get ALL dealers, collectors, AHs, TPGs, selling platforms, and on and on, to ALL agree to work together and openly share data, information, and everything else about all the cards they have and/or handle for such a concerted effort to even have a snowball's chance in hell of ever effectively working to help stop the card doctors. Yeah, like that is ever happening! LOL