What's the Deal With These R315's?

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Howard:

If you are questioning their authenticity, I think they are good.

[Buythatcard]

One of the things that is throwing me off was that a R315 should have a width of 3 1/4 inches. The Pipgras measures 3 3/8 inches. Is that normal for the R315's?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

One of the things that is throwing me off was that a R315 should have a width of 3 1/4 inches. The Pipgras measures 3 3/8 inches. Is that normal for the R315's?

Who knows how, or if, the TPG's will grade them numerically with weird cuts, but these were issued in strips (too?) and those dimensions don't bother me, as a collector.

[leftygrove10]

Leon showed a vertical strip of R315's. Unless I am mistaken, they were also issued in horizontal strips. Leon (or someone else on the board) has scans of a horizontal strip. The cards at the top appear to have been issued in horizontal strips as well, since you can see the border on the card to the right.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

Leon showed a vertical strip of R315's. Unless I am mistaken, they were also issued in horizontal strips. Leon (or someone else on the board) has scans of a horizontal strip. The cards at the top appear to have been issued in horizontal strips as well, since you can see the border on the card to the right.

I wasn't showing the horizontal strip as it's more common to see the vertical ones. This is the only horizontal I am aware of but I am sure there are more out there somewhere....(this is a poor scan but this thing is large , approx. 16 1/2" x 5 1/4" )

[Buythatcard]

Thanks for your help. I never realized that the R315's were also strip cards. That explains the miscuts that I have in the lot.

It's never too late to learn something new.

[Leon]

There is some good info in this thread so I am bumping it to ask another question. I have known there has been a version of the R315s that appear to be yellow'ish in color. I picked this one up recently. The back looks kind of blotchy so I am curious if maybe something, after the fact, made these types turn yellow? Large scan on purpose and it is NOT scanner enhanced at all. This is the way it looks in hand...Any thoughts are appreciated. My first inclination is that they were produced this way.....