T206 trimmed or not?

[steve B]

Can you see it in person? It's impossible to tell much of anything from those small scans.

I've bought a few raw T206s with nice corners. A couple came back undersize, and one trimmed, but most have done well.

In person what you're looking for is a slight rounding of the edge on the front and a bit of a ridge on the back. That's from the cutter blade being pushed through the stack. Similar to a die cut edge. For a very visible example of the sort of edge have a look at most jigsaw puzzles (Newer mass produced ones, the high quality ones or the old wood ones are sometimes sawn even today)

There should be a very tiny bit of chipping along all the edges on the back. Not freshly torn or spots that look pulled.
And an edge that's very sharp top and bottom with no rounding or chipping is almost certainly trimmed.
(It's possible with a freshly sharpened blade, but that almost never would have been the case. The blades on a cutter might only need sharpening once every year or two. )

Steve B