Starting up another Orange Border thread! The E-unc handcut cards this time....

shammus · #1 05-24-2009, 05:55 PM

What's sort of funny is the orange bordered set may be the only set I've seen so far where SGC just totally ignores the measurements on the card. Unless there's a variation of the card that I haven't seen yet that doesn't have the borders at all. That Chase above for instance, got a 30 even without the borders. A few of mine got numerical grades as well even with wavy or otherwise obviously trimmed borders.

calvindog · #2 05-24-2009, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shammus

A few of mine got numerical grades as well even with wavy or otherwise obviously trimmed borders.

But that's the joke of the grading of this set -- they're all trimmed!

Hal Kaplan · #3 05-24-2009, 06:26 PM

Here's an old pic of the box I once found online, but I can't remember where I got it. Lipset's Encyclopedia (Vol. 2) mentions the text on the top, bottom, and sides of the box. One of these four panels mentions the P.R. Warren Co., which is also identified on the back of the E125's (Possibly the printer or designer, as the E125's and orange borders are similar in style?
Anyone have any ideas?) Maybe someone will recognize this auction and still have the catalog, and be able to post more info or a better pic. Hope this helps!

calvindog · #4 05-24-2009, 06:29 PM

Hal, that's great stuff. I can't believe we've never seen those two boxes -- or any others -- again.

Wesley · #5 05-25-2009, 11:52 AM

SGC should have minimum size requirements for these cards. At the very least, the cards with the orange borders entirely cut off should not receive number grades.

shammus · #6 05-25-2009, 12:45 PM

That's the funny thing - there don't appear to be size requirements with this set. Obviously a card with borders trimmed off isn't going to meet the size requirements set up by all the cards that have borders. Yet they still receive a numeric grade. Wavy or hacked up borders qualify as well. I can't say that I can think of any other set that gets this much flexibility from SGC either.

E93 · #7 05-25-2009, 01:19 PM

Jeff,
That Cobb sucks. You should get rid of it immediately. Call if you need help.
JimB

rickswaine · #8 05-26-2009, 07:15 AM

Thought someone might want to see this Bill Donovan that's not listed in SCD.

Abravefan11 · #9 05-26-2009, 07:40 AM

Magee is also not listed in the SCD.

fkw · #10 05-28-2009, 08:26 PM

That Orange Border box image was from an auction lot I cut from an old auction catalog included in SCD's back in the late 1990s-2002 era (Lipset I think). I recognize the green doodle bid in the bottom right corner. I'll see if I can find the catalog and see if that $1400 was the winning bid or what I wanted to bid