Should Card Restoration Be Allowed? + The Hobby's Next Big Battle + Counterfeit Concerns
Where is the line between preserving a card and altering it?
Jeremy Lee, Chris Hoge, and Chad Hawk tackle one of the hobby's most controversial topics after watching a video that demonstrates the restoration of a valuable LeBron James rookie card. Is restoration simply conservation, or does it fundamentally change what collectors are buying?
The conversation expands into the growing challenge of detecting sophisticated alterations, whether restoration could ever become accepted in sports cards the way it has in other collectibles, and how population reports, scarcity, and collector confidence…
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