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Originally Posted by Brent G.
Then what is the "face tattoo"??
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Hilarious, as I strongly considered using that for the analogy!
But it gets worse than some $20 plaque being desecrated. For "face tattoo", how about document cuts of people like Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, or anything of that sort? A Ruth or Gehrig that was cut from a larger piece of any significance greater than an unthemed album page?
Vintage material should mostly be left alone. Again, I don't care as much if something like an historic autograph was already clipped from a document prior to being put into the insert card, but am not into destroying documents no matter how mundane they may be. If you have something like an album page signed by Pie Traynor and the ubiquitous Joe. E. Brown, I'm not losing any sleep. Same goes for Bing Crosby, who you see on baseball album pages. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson shows up with inordinate frequency as well. It makes sense to separate things like that from the ballplayers' autograph(s), as they are fairly unrelated and cater more to separate crowds than they would in multi-signed formats.
Years ago, I was authenticating a bunch of material at Upper Deck HQ for their cut cards. One item was a unique 8X10 of Rogers Hornsby in a Mets uniform. Seeing as he died the same year as the Mets' first season, there was a narrow window of opportunity for Hornsby to have signed anything to do with the team. A premium item such as an 8X10 is practically unheard of, and this one would have still ranked as the nicest example if it had lived to see the present. UD saw no problem in cutting it up. Hornsby tended to sign largely, too, so somewhere, there's a fugly ogers Hornsb insert card. So disgraceful.
To be fair, I've cut up my fair share of multi-signed album pages over the years. Some of this material found its way into insert cards. At the same time, I certainly never maimed anything of historical significance, such as a championship team piece, nor did I sell anything rendered too large to fit into the standard sized window for such insert cards. No oredcai Brows came from this direction! I couldn't destroy something which carried meaning. I've also never sold any plaques, documents or photos for such a purpose. Just things that were already cuts, or removed from multi-signed pages that had no importance that I could see. I'd rather hang on to the remainders of those pages as opposed to selling them to a company intact when they may not have any use for the rest of the signatures and knowing they would ultimately end up being scrapped.