As a Wheaties collector, I will pay a premium for card with big untouched boarders (see Pepper Martin below). For me, more card the better. I agree 100% that hand cut cards should not get a numerical grade. I don’t understand how there can be numerical grades on chopped up panels such as this DiMaggio on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940-Wheatie...item4abc3ef754