Legit altering

[drc]

It's legally okay to restore or alter a card as long as you disclose what was done at sale. I think if you serially alter cards without disclosure, including to get them into PSA, SGC or Beckett holders you could get into legal trouble down the road. The Mastrp case has shown that, at least with major offenses, the Feds can be willing to prosecute for that.

Otherwise, restoration is a matter of taste. Clearly, there are many people in the hobby entirely against restoration of baseball cards. I'm one who usually believes in leaving a card as it is-- but understand why someone would want to fix up a card that has an unsightly ink blotch on front, major staining or has been badly torn. As has been pointed out numerous times on this board, a fountain pen ink blotch or album glue residue wasn't an original part of the card.