What do you think of Hand Cut cards

A strip before hand cut

[Section103]

Originally Posted by rgpete

A strip before hand cut

Beautiful

[ZiggerZagger]

While they'll never be my favorite pieces, I have to say that I do really enjoy some of the hand-cut/strip cards in my collection.
It's the 'Kissing your Sister' option, I suppose... So while it's not exactly wrong, don't enjoy it too much.

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[Leon]

To answer any question above, graders can't tell "when" a card was cut. If you ask one and they are honest they will say they can't. And if they said they can I would like to hear how? In my view, I don't care if cut strip cards get a numeric grade but they HAVE to say hand cut...Or I would be a little happier if they were all AUT and no numeric grade, but that train has left the station...

Strips are cool and many that are classified as strip cards aren't strip cards at all. Here is a guy who made a boner and is a candy box cut card

[Fred]

Leon,

My thought is that if the TPGs started NOW to only provide an AUTH label for hand cut cards, then all graded ones would simply fall into that category after the practice became an accepted "policy" (of sorts).

Sure, there could have been a hand cut card graded a "9" but after adopting a new policy, then that card would basically become a really nice looking AUTH card. Well, that's my thought on it.

As mentioned before, someone could find a hand cut card with large borders graded "4". The card could be removed from the slab and re-cut, submitted for grading and get an "8". Then that same card could be worth exponentially more. Now how about that Gretzky T206.... didn't that have some very generous borders before it was cut down? Yes, I realize it was part of a strip but you have a lot or latitude at that point.

[Rookiemonster]

The first two pre was cards I owned were max Carey and Alexander Gaston American caramel. They both were cut but I don’t think they were supposed to be that way. But the guy I sold them to said that they might have came from a strip.

[Steve D]

Are these a match?




It's interesting, as Schaeffer never played for the NY Giants, and although he did play for the Highlanders/Yankees, that was only for one year, in 1916.

Steve

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Fred

Leon,

My thought is that if the TPGs started NOW to only provide an AUTH label for hand cut cards, then all graded ones would simply fall into that category after the practice became an accepted "policy" (of sorts).

Sure, there could have been a hand cut card graded a "9" but after adopting a new policy, then that card would basically become a really nice looking AUTH card. Well, that's my thought on it.

As mentioned before, someone could find a hand cut card with large borders graded "4". The card could be removed from the slab and re-cut, submitted for grading and get an "8". Then that same card could be worth exponentially more. Now how about that Gretzky T206.... didn't that have some very generous borders before it was cut down? Yes, I realize it was part of a strip but you have a lot or latitude at that point.

I always wonder about people paying a high price for a HIGH GRADE hand cut card due to its grade. To me it seems kind of stupid.

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