Interesting article.
I wasn't collecting much when the cut Wagner went on the block, and wasn't part of this board or the debate at the time.
I guess I'm not grasping what is so horrible about cutting a card out of a sheet and getting it graded. Putting to the side the whole question of deception and lying about it, all cards were printed in some medium and designed to be cut out. To me, removing a card from a sheet is light years different than taking a already cut card and screwing with the borders to make it better. But I can see many people don't value this distinction. I am not an art guy, but isn't there a huge difference between (a) cutting a fantastic Andy Warhol paining out of an oversized canvas so that it can be framed nicely and (b) trimming an Andy Warhol painting on the edges so that some kind of imperfection can be removed?
I realize that you guys who lived through this probably have zero interest in rekindling the debate.
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