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The damage lighter fluid does on vintage MOC's and packaging
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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph_Y" data-source="post: 323832" data-attributes="member: 1758"><p>I personally disagree on your disdain for restored comics, as long as true archival techniques are used, AND any repairs are disclosed, the level of restoration that I'll allow in my collection stops at anything beyond small piece repair (marvel chipping/spine reinforcing, etc) and colour retouching.All of which are detectable when submitting a book for 3rd party grading. Replaced (reproduced) pages, or covers, I wouldn't want. But we all have our cut off points, I'd rather have a moderately restored Amazing Fantasy 15 that looks like a 9.0(which is what I do have), than a 1.5 unrestored that looks like a truck ran over it. The problem that people are having when it comes to AFAs service is that they're not disclosing that work has been done to the items in their population reports. Sure if an item comes thru that they didn't do the work on , they'll refuse it, but if they do the work they'll slab it and put a shiny sticker on it, lying to the community that nothing invasive has been done to the item. Even the restoration company that CGC owns makes sure that every bit of work is disclosed when they slab the book up. IF AFA offered more invasive work, they certainly wouldn't disclose it, based on what they're currently doing.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p>Joe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph_Y, post: 323832, member: 1758"] I personally disagree on your disdain for restored comics, as long as true archival techniques are used, AND any repairs are disclosed, the level of restoration that I'll allow in my collection stops at anything beyond small piece repair (marvel chipping/spine reinforcing, etc) and colour retouching.All of which are detectable when submitting a book for 3rd party grading. Replaced (reproduced) pages, or covers, I wouldn't want. But we all have our cut off points, I'd rather have a moderately restored Amazing Fantasy 15 that looks like a 9.0(which is what I do have), than a 1.5 unrestored that looks like a truck ran over it. The problem that people are having when it comes to AFAs service is that they're not disclosing that work has been done to the items in their population reports. Sure if an item comes thru that they didn't do the work on , they'll refuse it, but if they do the work they'll slab it and put a shiny sticker on it, lying to the community that nothing invasive has been done to the item. Even the restoration company that CGC owns makes sure that every bit of work is disclosed when they slab the book up. IF AFA offered more invasive work, they certainly wouldn't disclose it, based on what they're currently doing. Cheers Joe [/QUOTE]
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