No Bob, we are not labeling you. You are a collector in the hobby like most of us. The fact that you put your cards that you "restored or altered" in a box of their own labelled as such is what most of us would do and expect from true collectors. I think the problem is that well past out time, some of these cards will fall in the hands of someone who can see a larger profit if the line about being restored is not disclosed to the potential buyers. As someone else said in his post, some of these restored cards are impossible to tell that they have been restored. I would like cards like this marked discreetly that they have been restored, a discreet mark that could not be removed from the card.
Think of the card in the original post and article. What if it was sold privately to someone who would then put it up for auction as authentic? It would probably get more than the $420,000 it sold for now if enough buyers believed it was original and not restored. That is the danger in all of this as BradLevi expressed.
Now restored 1987 Topps or 1991 Donruss cards probably won't matter but any early 1900 cards will. That is why most of us would rather have the card in the Poor condition than the Authentic condition.
I would add a note on your box of restored or altered cards saying "Either keep in memory of me or destroy when I am gone. NEVER, NEVER sell or give away."
Bruno
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