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Seth B.What is it about the baseball card mindset?
Jerry-not being an educated collector, I can't tell what the restoration is on those beautiful bills you've shown us. As a collector, could you have seen the restoration without the grading service warning you?
I work quite a bit with antiquities I don't own (Greek vases, marble statues, Roman bronze armor, etc.), and the usual way to do things in that field is to make the restoration as obvious as possible so that anyone, even a layman, can quickly detect what part of an object is real and what part is fake. In the case of these lower-level collectables, it seems like the primary intent is to restore the object in such a way as to trick the person seeing it into believing it's a genuinely preserved piece.