Cutting sheets

[icollectDCsports]

I'd rather own a pristine pre-War card, knowing that it was obtained from original packaging and carefully preserved over the years than the same "card" that was cut from a sheet yesterday. It's not just about the image, or repros would suffice for many more of us; it's about the history (and what we can imagine about it) of the object itself.

[bnorth]

Like most things everyone has a different opinion. I own several full sheets and over the years have cut several of them up.

From my experience in telling everyone the cards being sold are professionally(hand) cut from a full sheet. Very few wont buy the card but most wont pay the same for the hand cut cards as they will for factory cut cards.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Like most things everyone has a different opinion. I own several full sheets and over the years have cut several of them up.

From my experience in telling everyone the cards being sold are professionally(hand) cut from a full sheet. Very few wont buy the card but most wont pay the same for the hand cut cards as they will for factory cut cards.

Professionally hand cut?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by conor912

Professionally hand cut?

Lol yes. A friend own a framing gallery so I use his professional really expensive matting cutter to cut sheets. When I cut them using that all the cards are 2 1/2" X 3 1/2" like they should be not various sizes like most hand cut cards.

What would be an accepted or general tolerance to the standard size of a particular issue such as 1935 Goudey 4 in 1 to being long and short

[t206blogcom]

An old card cut today was never distributed in a pack. That's a big difference in my opinion.

[ksabet]

Originally Posted by t206blogcom

An old card cut today was never distributed in a pack. That's a big difference in my opinion.

So you don't think 1915 CJ's are not worthy of collecting? No TPG should ever grade a Lajoie either.

Neither were ever in packs.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by icollectDCsports

I'd rather own a pristine pre-War card, knowing that it was obtained from original packaging and carefully preserved over the years than the same "card" that was cut from a sheet yesterday. It's not just about the image, or repros would suffice for many more of us; it's about the history (and what we can imagine about it) of the object itself.

id like to know if cards are soaked or not too but noone says it......as far as sheets and why they exist now..noone really knows the intentions...

i just dont see it as a problem on value cause sheets go for huge prices on old cards...good luck with the cutting...if its 'trimmed' you just killed the value..