Posted By:
Jim NovotnyAl
I dont know whether to respond or run for the hills and hide for starting a thread that got so heated. Usually when I post I kill most threads.
I do appreciate the honesty of all of you and I do appreciate hearing your points of view. Being relatively new to collecting vintage cards it didnt even dawn on me that people would soak and press cards to make them longer then trim them down so they would get 8s and 9s. Since I can only afford low grade (1-3) T206s, and I dont sell my cards, and I only collect and hold them for my personal collection, I doubt that I would experience the soak/press/trim effects.
However, I admit that I have taken paper off of the back of one of my T206s. At first PSA wouldnt grade the card with the paper on it and called it altered. Upon closer inspection it looked like the back was intact and when I removed the paper it had a very nice Sweet Cap back. It went back to PSA and it got a 2 which fits perfectly into my collection.
So after all of this discussion I must admit that I am a bit wiser (but Ill still lay low until the smoke clears).