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B C DanielsOne from "Hankron" Aaron ,on this board and one printed about 10 years ago by SCD. The SCD one is a great little white book for a novice...unfortunately,the best source is still and always will be years of "just knowing" by having handled thousands of cards many of the same card and versions of any particular card over and over again to mentally note the image in one's mind of what an authentic, untainted card would look like. All senses involved will help when keenly trained to absorb common factors of cardboard and aged paper. The mind can suspect corrections based on this type of experience which is again the best,though subjective standards we use here to debate what is real and what is altered. Our common ground and best free offering to each other is the honing of which sense we best perfected in some area of card grading and comparing it to the best sense used and perfected by our fellow collctor. One guy is good at observing trim work,another corner restoration.if we share we all learn and if we share what we recall of provenance we all win when concerned about a piece of history we share affection for.