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Posted By: Plastic Dog

Maybe some of the weird stuff - like the hand-cut Ty Cobb back or even the hand-cut Piedmont Wagners - should receive the same numerical grade (i.e. 0 or 1/2) and a description of "Authentic but Non-Standard." That would possibly be a descent option for some of the other pre-production printer's scrap and miscellaneous oddities. Items that wouldn't grade now because they were clearly hand-cut (but whether at the factory or in some 10-year-old's back-yard is unclear).

Also, on the Snodgrass/Nodgrass, we would have to come up with a means of ensuring that Authentic but Altered is not passed off as "real trimmed Nodgrass" on the unsuspecting buyer. Maybe yet another category: "Authentic but Deceptive"

So, in summary, you have a grade clearly below poor for altered, authentic cards, with a number less than one - maybe 0, maybe 1/2 or .5 - with the following qualifiers:

Authentic but Restored
Authentic but Altered
Authentic but Non-Standard
Authentic but Deceptive


However, in all honesty, I hope that these cards never get slabbed.