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Paul AdamsThree of four posts you made here have included nothing but negativity, and you advise me to "chill out".
Are you in the habit of sitting back and taking a moment to consider the entirety of your posts before sending them?
Above, you go as far as to say that the card is an "art project". That to you, the colors, the edges, the size, the borders, the look (how about the "feel", you left that out?) are wrong. As if you can judge these things from scanned images. Right after that statement, I realized that no matter what was said about this card, you would impart some type of negative spin in any and all posts connected with this card or seller.
Do you have a few E90-1 Jaxs at hand to compare colors on? Or were you comparing the colors of this one to a weather-beaten, faded out, scuffed up Fair example you possibly saw at a card show 5 years ago? I'm going to bet that the latter is the case, because if you did have 3 or 4 E90-1 Jaxs to compare this scanned image to, you would first be able to note that each of them was a slightly different shade of purple and each of them had a slightly different shade of red "moustache" positioned differently on each card dependent upon inconsistant register.
Did you ever notice that curious effect about pre-WW 1 Vintage color cards? I've got three red portrait Cobbs, two of the three from the same series, tobacco brand and factory number and all three are slightly different shades of red with slightly different facial features dependent upon inconsistant register.
Point is, even if you had ten different Pro graded NM Joe Jax cards, each one would differ in hue very slightly.
Also, the border colors look fine from here. Possibly, your monitor is set too "hot". Too bright. Ever think of that? Possibly, the seller's scanner was set too hot or bright, or his monitor too dark. I see cream borders with toned infiltration common and consistant to what I see when I look at any of my 200 or so E cards. No difference and certainly nothing that stands out as remarkable.
The card may very well be altered, but none of these observations you made are in any way valid. Especially when you make the statement, "The card is NG" quite emphatically.
I think that anyone with enough technical expertise to sit in judgement on the merits of this card being unaltered would wish to do so after examining the card itself in person, and not through scanned images. But then again, I may be thinking unbiasedly, with more logic, and not given to speak harshly on the subject of a card in question that I haven't seen in person just to see my words in print.
I think I'm all chilled out very nicely now. Your concerns over my welfare are duly noted and greatly appreciated. I'll keep you up to date regularly on my caffeine intake, since it's a major source of your consternation.