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Originally Posted by luciobar1980
... and the sort of artificial looking abrasions make me think it's no good.
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The crackle is enough for this to be a terrible card, but this is an important point, about how modern paper behaves vs. 1910-era paper.
Look at the Burdick Collection example of this card and you'll see there are very similar flaws -- an abrasion at top right, a big chip of paper loss at bottom right -- but actual period paper/card stock behaves very differently.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/694935