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Old 06-11-2010, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by T206Collector View Post
the reason it must have been "beyond me" is that your original post was not about card alteration, but instead a reference to corner damage, which I still think is irrelevant to this discussion.
It is relevant. Why are card guys upset at a bit of corner damage? What do they want? They want the cards to be exactly as they were when they left the factory--any deviation from that lowers the value in their world.

Well, I want a Gehrig autographed item, for example, to be exactly as it was when it left Gehrig's hand.

Just as you're not allowed to trim a card to produce perfect corners--making it (superficially) look "better," so, too, should you not be allowed to remove part of an autograph.
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