Consensus on re-trimming hand-cut cards?

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Posted By: Jamie Boneparth

My opinion would be, don't do it. I believe that the best thing to do is to leave it in the condition you found it. Yes, the card was originally hand-cut, but that hand-cutting was done ninety years ago and is part of the history of the card. To retrim is tampering with it. Yes, the card may have been hand-cut originally, but the act at that time was one of authenticity.

That is just my opinion. Perhaps you would get more for the card if you re-trimmed it, I do not know. But as a buyer, I would not have any interest in a re-trimmed hand-cut card.