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06-11-2009, 08:57 PM
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I'm not fond of wildly off-centered cards, but anything that's 60-40 or better will fit in nicely in my collection. I'm much more focused on the freshness of the card (could it have come out of a pack looking the way it does now?). Corners, edges, color, registration all come before "perfect" centering.
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06-12-2009, 07:13 AM
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RE:
I wasn't claiming the 59' Mays to be DEAD CENTERED. I wanted to do a comparison of the 59' Mays that was currently running on EBAY but I figured I shouldn't go copying and pasting his auction image on this thread. My Mays is definitely 50-50 Left to Right. That's where it matters most in my opinion. I can live with 60-40 top to bottom because it still looks like it could have been designed that way. Thanks for all the replies!!
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06-12-2009, 01:53 PM
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I am OK with vintage off-centered cards that may have a PSA OC qualifier with sharp corners. For example, give me a decent-looking PSA 8 OC over a PSA 6 in most cases.
Check my McGraw pictured here. To get sharp corners on a NM-MT card nearly 70 years old, and just have it be slightly off-centered, I feel it is a great value over getting a better centered card in EX-MT with touches to all corners. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm happy with this card!
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06-12-2009, 07:13 PM
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Centering never really mattered much to me as long as the card had four distinct borders. I'd rather have a NM looking card with 80/20 centering over an EX one that's 50/50, but it seems like I'm in the vast minority.
Last edited by Doug; 06-12-2009 at 07:13 PM.
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06-18-2009, 10:57 AM
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good question- side to side, to me, the only thing worse than a card being even slightly off-centered is a pinhole. top to bottom however, i don't mind- and in some cases, i prefer. i had an e101 jack knight sgc50 which was perfectly centered top to bottom and side to side. i happened upon a raw e101 knight which was centered side to side, but had more bottom than top. i bought it and downgraded from the other one because i liked the way it looked better. the card is now in an sgc 40 holder and is technically in worse condition than the one i sold, but i like it much better.
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07-11-2009, 04:15 AM
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Card focus and clarity are the most important qualities for me. I'll prefer a sharp crisp image on a somewhat worn card over an unworn card with poor focus either in the photography or color registration. I just derive more pleasure from it.
I can tolerate some centering issues especially on common cards. If I'm seeing part of another card then that's too far. Again it depends on the card.
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07-13-2009, 11:26 AM
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Side to side is more important to me than top to bottom.
I'd rather have good centering and fuzzy corners, than sharp corners and bad centering, especially side to side. In grades 5 to 7, I'd rather have centering. I rarely look at the corners.
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