Posted By:
leonFrom our friends at SGC:
"We want to make it absolutely positively clear that the group of 1912 T215 "Pirate" cigarette cards in the upcoming Mastro sale are NOT hand cut. Every one was carefully examined by the SGC graders. They have all of the characteristics of a card that has been cut with a machine at a factory. The cards were cut very similarly to T206s and have the same traits that we outlined in the T206 trimming article some months ago in the SGC Collector magazine. When we graded these T215s we were well aware of the fact that a few T215s have been sold in the past few years that were hand cut. However, that does not mean that every T215 was hand cut and these most certainly were not hand cut. If you have any questions on these or any other SGC graded cards feel free to call our offices."
edited to put parenthesis to be more clear that this originated from SGC