Even without being able to inspect the branching closely the trunk alone is worth the risk of purchase. With this kind of tree branching is pretty much a non issue because it can be easily re-grown, or grafted.
Further work is being done on the under side of the trunk where a long cascadeing branch was cut back. Most of the deadwork was done with thread pulling after cutting back.
The others show a tree in a can, the third shows a tree out of the can and cut back. That is what I cut the ball down to after taking it out of the fiva gallon nursery container.
From there it was planted back in the five gallon nursery container in free draining mix and fertilized havily.