No bombs to throw Greg.

Slabbing isn't a solution to David Whalen. David is an open book, he is the solution to him. I've talked to him at length about what he's done concerning repairs and alterations, and he'll answer any question you might want to pose to him. ...but, a lawsuit filed by the club, coupled with his being banned from entrance to the convention this year (he was there, and I was told he was denied entry) might make him less willing to disclose any info regarding his work.

As to the inlays you saw, why didn't you buy them to take them off the market and remove the possibility of them being used to defraud other collectors? Or at the very least, point someone like Doug Saito to their existence so he could buy them and take them off the market? At the first chip show I ever attended in January 1998, someone had blank arodies for sale, at 10 or 12 bucks a piece if I remember right. Doug bought all of them, for the sole purpose of getting them off the market so no one could use them to produce fakes.

Active involvement by those of us who are in the hobby is what will be the best avenue to take regarding fraud and deception. The experts are in the hobby, not in the offices of the slabbing companies.

Bob