Simply amazing - the doctored Cobb is back

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Posted By: Kenny Cole

My concern isn't primarily with this card. I don't care one way or the other about it except insofar as it affects my more overriding concern.

If the card has alteration issues, 3 seperate companies shouldn't have missed it, simple as that. If they did, that doesn't say much for them. In fact, to my way of thinking, it raises huge red flags about the competence of all 3. I can see maybe one company missing what Scott and others are saying is a clearly altered card. But all 3? If it is truly altered, that's simply ridiculous. And, it raises all of the issues I alluded to in my earlier post.

I don't have a problem with your suggestion of sending the Cobb to yet another grader. However, I really don't know what that accomplishes. The problem I see is that, at this point, I'm not sure who that almighty authority is. The 3 purported authorities have evidently already screwed it up, so who is next in line? If someone doesn't like the judgment of grader no. 4, does it then go to grader no. 5?

That was sort of my point. If all of the purported best graders around missed on this card then, as best as I can tell, the available options are that: 1) three seperate card graders missed it; 2) the card is OK; or 3) the card doctors are getting so good that the card gods can no longer tell. Anything other than #2 isn't really calculated to build my confidence in the abilities of the people who slab for a living.