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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>I guess maybe I'm seeing skeletons in every closet but I've always wondered--how do some cards get such evenly rounded corners? Is this the way they would wear narurally, or is assistance more likely?<br /><br />I have a couple of cards, a T206 Hindu Duffy, and a N162 Brouthers, (both of which were encapsulated in PSA 6 holders, strangely enough), which have three nice corners and one--that doesn't quite make it. Although less attractive, it seems to me more likely that a card would get this kind of wear--got dropped on one corner, or something. How could a card get dropped on FOUR corners? And you don't shuffle them, like they were a game (the game cards typically come with rounded corners!). So how do "rounded corners" happen?

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>I beg to differ Julie. You hold the stack in your hand tightly and in a way you do shuffle through them. You may put the stack in your pocket and every time you reach for it you're wearing the corners. <br /><br />Pete in MN

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>worthy of preservation--by the way, why does the "glue-back" stop after the turn of the century?--but I suppose kids, and even their fathers, played with them sometimes. Has anyone ever seen rubber-band marks on a T206? Amd when was the rubber-band invented, anyway?

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Posted By: <b>Dave</b><p>On June 24, 1844, Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for vulcanized rubber. <br /><br />Rubber Bands - On March 17, 1845, the first rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London, made from vulcanized rubber. Perry owned the manufacturing company Messers Perry and Co., of London, England.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>hmmm...very interesting. And the paper clip? How about the baggie ties?

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>rubber bands--were obviously germaine to the collecting of vintage cards.<br /><br />"baggie ties"?<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/050103crazicon6_prv.gif">

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>When I was a kid we'd hammer a nail through the center of the stack of cards so we could just spin the cards around to look at them...it was much quicker than flipping through them! Yes...I'm sorry...big hangover...not myself today.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>And I resent you for accusing me of being german!

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Dan koteles</b><p>As I stated last time , they had to be cut corner stop sign wise or how could four corners be perfectly rounded together ?<br /><br />I buy the theory that some paper can come off by putting them in your pocket, but perfectly sized or exact rounded abrasions on all four ?<br /><br />Opinion only