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Paul KaufmanTed- I understand your thoughts about the POP reports being slanted towards having more cards submitted as the price of a particular card goes up. I was just using the reports to buttress my theory that the Mike Mitchell is not really all that rare, and that you even see more examples of the card that are not gradeable.
The slant cut of the E90-1 cards is not that uncommon at all in my experience.....and they seem to be totally acceptable as long as the top and bottom cuts are parallel. I am not sure I agree with your premise that the slant cut cards were discarded at the time of printing. There are many, many of these slant cut cards out there of varying degress of "slant". Perhaps even up to 20% of the total E90-1 population.
On another point, I don't know why it is totally unbelievable that Amer. Caramel Co. changed the background color of the Keeler portrait so that his facial tone (pink) would contrast more with the new background color (red) ?