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Luc MitchellGetting back to the issue of SGC, here are the possibilities I see:
1) Clean Sweep obtains the card and sends it into SGC where it fails. It is auctioned off regardless. I'm unclear on the timeline, so this one might not be a possibility.
2) The card is sold in the first auction and consigned again (buyer's son dies etc.) CSA sends it to SGC and it fails to pass authentication. Reauctioned.
3) The card is sold in the first auction, whereupon the buyer sends it in to SGC where it fails. The buyer consigns it with a fallacious story of his son's death.
4) Same as 3, save after the failed authentication the buyer notifies Clean Sweep in search of a refund. The card finds its way back to auction.
The only way that CSA did not know about the failed test, then, is if the first buyer did not disclose it. One has to wonder how probable this situation would be; wouldn't it be safer to invoke a guarantee than to BS a story? Moreover, where authentication of such a potentially historically significant card could have a great impact on its value, it is logical to assume that Clean Sweep would have pursued that option. In my opinion, the only reason not to due so is if its authenticity was questionable in the first place.
Does anyone have a rough timeline?