[TanksAndSpartans]

Steve, you make a good argument and if I was confident that the grading companies were scrutinizing the cards for trimming properly - looking at the edges etc. or if I knew the provenance of the cards i.e. someone really kept them in the same nice box for 80 years (in actuality the closest to provenance I ever get is "these were my father's/grandfather's/Uncle's/etc." which while possible, I'm usually skeptical.....), I'd be fine with vintage undersized cards in holders even if they were graded in the 6-9 range. The correlation that concerns me is undersized cards being associated with relatively high grades too frequently. Of course, I can admit my sample size may be too small as it's one of those things that sticks out in your mind when you see it and thus my perception may be it happens more than it does.