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The pictured AUTH cards were better than Poor to start with, so of course they'll look better after they've been fixed up.

I personally rank altered cards as at best grade Poor. An unaltered Poor card is like Joe Garagiola. Sure, he wasn't very good, but he didn't use steroids. Where some might look at altered card and see Babe Ruth (or Honus Wagner, as the case might be), I tend to see Brett Boone.