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This card brings up a question for me. If you can't see it for some reason, or you don't get what I'm alluding to, the 'P' is actually the 'd' from Cardinals because the patch was inserted upside down.
If someone was to buy this card and flip the patch around, would people be OK with that? It's obviously 'improving' the card, and people don't seem to like improving of collectibles. In cards, one isn't often given the chance to manually correct an error, and I wonder if the improvement outweighs the idea of this thing being a piece of industrial art, or whatever, and it needs to stay as much as possible in the state it was when it came out of the pack.
In my mind this would be different from, say, Sharpieing a 1971 Topps, which is restoration that goes over into tampering. I guess it's not an issue so much with cards as it is with comics, one of my other hobbies, where 'pressing' is a raging debate. But let's say someone flipped this patch, or any of the others that seem to have been assembled by someone new on this planet. If they tried to resell it, would they have to be upfront about it? And if they were, should it affect the price? In which direction?
And what if you opened such a card? Most likely no one would know if you did such surgery, assuming it was done with skill. Would you do it or leave it as is?
