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Trevor HockingHey Scott, How's things going? Long time no talk. You should drop me an e-mail.
I think that as long as a card is not restored to deceive or gain a higher grade from a grading company then it is ok. Now let me make myself a little clearer here. If a card has an ink mark on it because someone got crazy with the old fountain pin then it should and would be graded accordingly, but if some uses a pen to correct a problem on the card and pass it off as if the correction was never made, then I believe that to be deceiving. In the case of the Ward, the glued down photo is very apparent on the card and the tear is still noticeable and further more preserved the cards photo, the most important part. Please remember that this was graded a 1.5, where not talking about a low end card getting graded into a high end slab here.
Trevor