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T206Collector"if you commit a crime and don't get caught, then you haven't committed a crime"
Let's be a bit careful with our analogies, okay? Undetectable alterations in baseball cards are not like a murder that you got away with. "Well, Paul, if you can press a card without guilt, I bet you could kill without remorse if you could get away with it." If you want to stick with analogies, how about "apples and oranges" for this one?
Many of the Board members happen to believe, for whatever reason, that crease removal is wrong. What I think this means is that people are unlikely to bid on a card from which a crease has been removed, if they know that the crease has been removed. My question for them is simply -- if the card was graded a 7 by PSA, SGC and GAI, why the heck would you care if the card once had a wrinkle in it ASSUMING THAT THE WRINKLE WOULD NEVER EVER COME BACK and there was no trace of whatever was used to press the wrinkle?
If you would treat that card differently than a PSA 7 that you did not know the history behind, then I believe that you are being a bit naive about the history of cardboard in America over the past 100 years. Again, if your card has a crease in it, and it has been flattened in a toploader or screwdown for any period of time, odds are that the crease has been ameliorated some. MOREOVER, IF YOU DON'T SEE A CREASE IN YOUR BEAUTIFUL PSA 7'S, THAT CERTAINLY DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOUR CARD NEVER HAD ONE. My only point is, so what if it did ...cuz it don't now and won't in the future.