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Gilbert MainesAmbivalent? No, I prefer girls. Prefer heck, I insist on 'em. Exclusively.
But do I prefer to have creases removed from cards? When I can not detect their removal, I guess. No, I don't.
Why would anyone prefer cards which have had creases removed?
Maybe if they were cheaper. But why would that be, if you couldn't tell?
But none of this is what you asked. Sorry Jim, I do tend to ramble sometimes.
"do you prefer other people not remove creases"
Is what you asked.
Jim if I could prohibit doctoring under any circumstances, I would. But I can not change reality. Where there is motivation to cheat, there will be cheaters. So, you either develop a rational for acceptance or man the guns to fight it. I can not win this fight, and I can tolerate cheating. So the rational I have come to accept is that if it is good enuff to pass the slabbers muster, I sure ain't likely to notice it. (And being an anti-slab guy I hate to admit that) I only buy high priced cards from persons whose opinion I respect as much as the graders, or I buy slabbed cards, then crack them out.
Now I recognize that there are restorers out here who can doctor very well. Generally I am not in the market that this level of skill would be brought to bear on a card, but when I am - I sincerely believe that if a correction is undetectable, it does not exist.