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polakoff 10-15-2019 11:09 AM

1949 Bowman rough edges?
 
I acquired a small but solid lot of 1949 Bowmans, mixture of stars and commons. I'm not super familiar with the issue as I'm usually a Topps guy.

I've noticed that several of the cards (both stars and commons) have one or two "rough edges" almost similar to what is common on O-Pee-Chee. The cards measure full and line up perfectly with the cards in the lot that do NOT have rough edges. I was looking through some images and noticed some high grade cards appear to have this issue:

a PSA 7 Hodges with a jagged left edge: http://www.milehighcardco.com/ItemIm...3419a_med.jpeg

a PSA 10 Campy with a jagged right edge: https://images.psacard.com/s3/cu-psa...oundcorners=10

I'm assuming jagged edges are something that exists in this set? Can anyone explain (a) if that's the case and (b) if so, why?

Worried I bought some trimmed stuff but as I mentioned, they measure full, so my other thought was maybe sheet cut, until seeing slabbed cards with similar edges.

polakoff 10-15-2019 11:12 AM

Here’s a Lowrey from the lot with jagged left and right edges https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d683bf4137.jpg


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polakoff 10-15-2019 11:13 AM

Here’s a Rizzuto, which is the card that worried me. 3 edges are jagged with the bottom being the only unaffected one. With the Knick on the bottom edge, I was concerned it was trimmed. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...24fda2c74b.jpg


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Smanzari 10-15-2019 11:16 AM

This is common with these issues - IIRC, it has to do with how they were cut with a piano-type wire (I could also be remembering COMPLETELY wrong)

steve B 10-15-2019 09:05 PM

A dull blade will do that too.

sickmantz 10-19-2019 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polakoff (Post 1923760)

Worried I bought some trimmed stuff but as I mentioned, they measure full, so my other thought was maybe sheet cut, until seeing slabbed cards with similar edges.

I've actually been told that the rough edges show it hasn't been trimmed.


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