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Posted By: Hal Lewis

But Mr. Wonka:

I also collected old cards back in the years before grading companies existed...

and a lot of them turned out to be "trimmed" or "restored" when they were sent in for grading a few decades later.

Wouldn't it be incredibly naive to think that people were not TRIMMING cards to make them look better even as far back as 1909??

How about in 1929? 1959? Of course they did.

I'm just saying that SOME percentage of ungraded cards out there have GOT to have "problems" that would keep them from being slabbed and which would reduce their values significantly.

THIS DOES NOT mean that I wouldn't LOVE to have some of those cards (like Andy's trimmed "Just So" Burkett)... but it does explain why some valuable cards will NEVER get slabbed and therefore authenticated.