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MW<< I don't know what the answer is, but if there were slabbed authentic cards noting what the reason was it didn't get graded, to me that's far better than an unscrupulous seller on ebay selling the card for NRMT. At least it's entombed with what's keeping it from truly grading. Otherwise all these trimmed caramel cards would be floating around as NRMT or EXMT out there. >>
Tom --
You are assuming that everyone who sells altered cards as NRMT is going to submit their cards to a grading service for "authentic-only" material. They won't. Instead you'll have these same sellers ALONG WITH sellers of "authetic" but altered cards. What a recipe for disaster.
Warsawlaw is very much correct when he writes that "[i]f the card has been retouched, trimmed, bleached, etc., however, it is the lowest possible form of card "life" and should not be graded, period."