Theories About the Existence of High Grade Vintage

[1880nonsports]

in the SCD article where it says Tom used government paper restorers using sophisticated equipment. While it was long before today's TPA's and certified court examiners - it reveals incompetence and/or fraud aren't a modern invention.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

I love the part in the SCD article where it says Tom used government paper restorers using sophisticated equipment. While it was long before today's TPA's and certified court examiners - it reveals incompetence and/or fraud aren't a modern invention.

My assumption is that it was incompetence rather than fraud. Or not even incompetence, really -- maybe they were just asked to test whether it was old cardboard, and they correctly reported that it was, but they didn't consider the possibility that it was an old, skinned T206 back attached to an old E95. The alternation may well have been done back around 1910, for all anybody knows. I wonder where that card is now -- it would be interesting to have somebody from one of the TPGs take a look at it with their modern equipment, to get a better idea how it came to be.