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T206Collector"It must be some puritan viewpoint in play here. But to me, if no difference is detectable, no difference exists."
I didn't mean that a card was trimmed so that no expert in the world could now or would never be able to identify it, which would, I agree, be totally undetectable forever. I meant that PSA didn't detect it under their grading standards in 1989, but that either they, or SGC or GAI or some other respected expert would now see the evidence.
But in any event, baseball cards are a puritanical enterprise. Cards are graded and valued based on purity. And a mint card is mint based not only on visible condition but also perceived condition. How many of us would debate the relative merits of a PSA 7 vs. a PSA 9 T206 card? Would any small group of experts ever agree unanimously? It is all about the perception of the grader or grading company.