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JohnAl, well taken I respect your thoughts.
I would like to make clear I’m not saying soaking & trimming are complete equals. Nor am I advocating either.
However the point of a NRMT card is that it has survived all these years without being trimmed, glued, soaked etc. At least it is to me, perhaps I’m in the minority wont be the first time. In fact if I bought and paid full price for a NRMT card to find out it was covered in glue at one time, and soaked off. I would be just as mad if I found out the card was trimmed. I would equally frown upon the person who sold it to me if they did not disclose such information upon purchase.
To me working on a card in anyway is altering or repairing it. In the art world repairs happen all the time, and most are so perfect you would never know. But it almost always lowers the value of that work. I think the same should apply in our little world.