The card doctor may not be legally responsible, however: paper restorers, as well as antique restorers of all types, have an ethical responsibility to disclose their work. And one is obligated to include a condition report when he returns a finished item to its owner.
But there are also restorers who have no intention at all of disclosing what they do. In fact, they work solely to make a large profit by taking a damaged piece and making it appear pristine. Those guys are dangerous, and they have been restoring baseball cards for many years without collectors being able to detect their work. I would say these reprobates have crossed the ethical and legal line, even if they did not do the selling themselves.
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