This goes on far more often than people think now that I consider it. I went to school with guy and his sister, their father was “friends” with a lot of pretty bad people I later found out. He could alter IDs better than anyone I had ever met, I mean you could NOT tell they were fake, I don’t know how he did it but for $25 (back in ‘83) it would open up a world of fun to a older looking teenager.
A mutual friend one night drunk talking about the family told me all through HS and now in college he walked around with leather flip badge holders, one in every pocket, and he thought his sister did the same thing though he wans’t sure. When I asked him why he said “wear and tear”. Huh? He then said he was told that no real artificial means could replicate the wear and tear pattern of a time worn used ID holder, and what went in them had to look like they had been used for a while, not like they were brand new. I guess a lot of thought went into what they did and I haven’t thought about this for decades, but reading this story and picturing the IDs reminded me of it.
I wonder how long this has been going on with really high end fake IDs, seems even back in the 80s it was.