FYI: New Alteration Detection Methods

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

So I've thought about this a lot and I think the way you would see change the quickest is, in a loose sense, akin to how PSA got started (Bear with me!)

Some multi-millionaire who has a complete T206 set gets the entire set microscopically examined and recorded, replacing any with issues. He then does a set break with, let's say, REA. The winner not only gets the cards (in some form of slab) but the digital images of the scans and whatever other pertinent information that is generated.

I think the press would be huge and the 800lb gorillas who have been going after PSA 8's would trample each other to get the first scientifically examined unaltered T206 cards.

Instead of just the Wagner this new company would have a complete set going up for auction with a great auction house and set the collecting world on it's ear.

that's not a bad idea?

[drcy]

There are the more formal raw card examinations, but part of this came to me when people were saying many collectors won't want to have their cards remvoved from the PSA holders, and PSA won't honor a guarantee for a card that has been removed-- which puts the collector in a conundrum.

Certainly, a card can't be fully and wholly examined when it's still in a holder, but I thought it would be useful for techniques that can do an unwhole but productive double check with the card still in the holder. And I know various forms of forensic light can go through the holders.

Though scanning/authenticting/documenting raw cards can of course also be done.