T5 Jackson - $47,853 vs. $182,425

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Posted By: Millerhouse

In Scott Brockleman's post, he recollected from the earlier string regarding the Mile High T5 of Jackson that it had been stated that the photo had been fully glued down to the mount. He is, in fact, recalling my post on the card in which I questioned, based upon the appearance of the card from the photo supplied by Mile High, whether the photo was fully glued down. I don't know, one way or the other, and no one responded to my post to verify or deny this.

However, I continue to suspect that this is the case, and the posts in this string focusing upon the border of the card make it appear even more suspicious to me.

I invite any long-time T5 collectors, if there are any others out there, to respond. My experience with these has long demonstrated that the photos, as issued, were only glued down to the mounts with a small strip of glue at the top border. Thus, whenever I have seen one fully glued down, my alteration radar has gone off immediately. (It suggests to me that someone who does not know any better had remounted a Pinkerton photo onto a mount from a lesser valued player or a mount with a seriously damaged photo.)

To me, it seems far more horrifying that someone may have paid a fortune for a significantly altered card than the possibility that the bidding itself may have been skewed. Can anyone verify whether the photo was fully glued down?

Dan