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Originally Posted by drcy
Condition does matter with photographs, but not to the finite anal-retentive degree as it does in the baseball card.
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I'm very glad that the above is the case. One of my concerns 10+ years ago, when we saw clearly-trimmed photos entering the market, and then appearing in plastic slabs, was that the modern trimming would be encouraged by card-like collector preferences.
This has continued to some extent (check some of the photos that supposedly came straight from archives, but have razor-sharp corners and vintage writing clearly half-gone from their backs, while most of the less valuable photos retain their vintage rough edges) but for the most part we have been lucky in that respect. Thanks, collectors, for not encouraging that practice. Also, I'm not pointing fingers with my prior parenthesized comment - I think the trimming is to make the photos more aesthetically-pleasing, which perhaps it does, and it's obvious, so I doubt there's any intended deception. Still...
To all photo sellers: leave the rough edges - we need them for matting.