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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Interesting dilemma.

If I had a baseball card that's ONLY blemish was some GLUE on the back from where it had been stuck in an album...

and someone could REMOVE the glue WITHOUT re-coloring the card or bleaching it or adding any new paper or anything like that...

then I would have no problem with someone removing the glue and "cleaning" the card.



But once PINHOLES have been repaired ... then a card has gone from being "cleaned" to being "restored", and the value drops WAY down for me.



Again, this is why I REALLY WANT someone reputable like SGC to start slabbing cards as "Authentic-Rebacked" or "Authentic-Bleached" or "Authentic-Trimmed"...

although there would still be NOTHING stopping someone from REMOVING the card from the slab and selling it to unsuspecting buyers WITHOUT disclosing any of those problems.