I was perusing Sean's fine listings Sunday, and I placed a bunch of bids,
but lost them all (shouldn't I have won some since the economy is down?).
But I noticed that on one card Sean wrote, "It is completely unrestored" and
later noted, "There are two small tape repairs on the back".
This might have simply been a mistake on Sean's part (easy to make when
selling so much), but I wondered if he (and the rest of you) possibly don't
consider clear tape on the back of a card (which may well have been put
there decades ago) to be "restoration".
And (in the spirit of the great buyers premium debate), does it matter if
there is a single piece of tape, or many? Does the kind of tape used matter?
Does it matter if it has yellowed? Does it matter if it has bled through to
the front, even the littlest bit? Does it matter if it is brown paper tape,
which was not put for any restoration purpose (many exchanges and theaters
used to turn four cards of a lobby set in one direction and four in the
other direction and then use paper tape to hold all eight together, so that
two cards would each have two pieces of brown paper tape on the back).
And most importantly of all, does size matter (does it matter if the tape is
say, 6 inches or 9 inches in length)?
Bruce
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