If you have the requisite skills and equipment to cut the edges straight and just outside the black lines I'd clean it up. I don''t like the looks of raggedy-edged panels or strip cards or Wheaties, and when I get them I clean them up, but I rarely slab cards anyway, so the net result is strictly for my own enjoyment. You have to keep the black lines showing; they are part of the charm of the design. I do agree with the other responses to the effect that the card is an "A" at best anyway because of the missing dashed lines on the Mantle.
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