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Posted By: T206Collector

Barry,

You raise a fundamental issue that I think is one that escapes the card purists -- it is akin to the tree falling in the woods with no one around scenario (does it make a sound? who cares?) -- if there were no way to ever know whether a card was doctored, would you still want to collect that set?

Jim has chimed in that this ruins his enjoyment of at least T206 cards and so he will not collect them until there is something that provides him with at least more if not perfect assurances in this regard.

My view is that I love T206 cards. If a doctor can doctor a card and the doctoring can never be detected, then I do not care. But if the doctoring later becomes dedectable, as in a reformed crease that had been expertly pressed, I want some reassurances. SGC provides those to me so far. If it turns out they don't, I'll look elsewhere. But in the meantime, I enjoy my cards. Gosh -- isn't that what they're for?