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Originally Posted by Mark17
I wonder if it isn't a case of a nice, bright card receiving a high grade, like that Koufax 7, and then the owner displays it where sunlight fades it over the years. In other words, the grading companies might not be giving heavily faded cards those high grades in the first place.
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I suspect this is not the case, because of the massive quantity of such cards. N172's are the easiest example, but it appears that the graders truly don't consider fading to be damage for some reason, though I have never found a hobbyist who doesn't consider it to be damage.
I am sure it does happen, but it does not seem to be that all these cards were unfaded before grading.