[giantfan270]

BTW, BGS does NOT authenticate patches. They authenticate the card and check for tampering around the patch window, but they do not authenticate patches. Sending it to BGS will do nothing. They may even slab it authentic. There is a certain someone on this site with a pretty well known Rickey Williams patch. The card was determined to be altered with a sharpie on one submission. The owner resubmitted on another submission and had it slabbed "authentic" when it should have been slabbed "authentic altered". It sort of legitimizes the tampering. If you sent yours in I have a feeling the same thing would happen. It would get slabbed authentic, and the patch swap would then be considered real. Destroy the card!