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Originally Posted by CaptSpaulding
If one is familiar with the characteristics of a sports card (and anyone in a grading room should be) it is pretty simple to detect if something is not right. Again, the graders do not need to identify what was exactly done to the card to reject it. They only need to identify that something is not original and that can be done fairly easily using one's eyes and a good light source.
I consider Mike Baker (former head grader at PSA) to have been one of the most competent graders in the industry. Although it was many years ago I never saw him use anything but his two eyes, his knowledge of cards and a halogen light when grading.
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Competent but severely compromised.