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RhysI was under the impression that restored cards were not gradeable unless given the qualifier "authentic". Unless SGC recently changed their policy they have lost a lot of respect in my eyes with the grading of the following card.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-D380-1-CLEMENT-BROS-PATTEE-SGC-10-RARE_W0QQitemZ5241922047QQcategoryZ57993QQrdZ1QQcm dZViewItem
The reson being, it is absolutely restored and an amatuer hack job at that. I bought this card for $40 at the Chicago Sun Times show in November of 2002. Took the card home and immediatley realized that the entire top portion of the card and area over the players right shoulder had been filled in with pencil because some of the background had been erased or cleaned off. Even some of the border oval was eproduced with pencil. I listed it on ebay with full disclosure that this card had the background colored in with pencil and got like $200. Now it is graded with no mention of major amatuer restoration. I am not saying anything about the buyer or seller, but this is either a major mistake by the holiest of holy grading companies, or they have changed their policies about grading restored cards as POOR with no mentions of restoration.
Interesting and disappointing either way.
Rhys Yeakley