Trimmed or Worn?

[tbob]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHarmonica

Good point, I don't mind true damage as opposed to intentional but sometimes you don't have a choice and take what you can get !

Agreed. When you are trying to complete a very difficult set (E94 master set for example), you can hardly reject an SGC A of a card when it is the first specific color/player combination you have seen in years and you need it. Some cards are so tough that finding them graded even though in an authentic holder makes them very desirable. You can always upgrade to a numerical holder later down the line.

[botn]

Trimmed is trimmed. Too often someone selling a card will write "slight trim." maybe aesthetically it makes a difference but the card is worth the same to me whether 1/64 of an inch is cut off or an 1/8 of an inch is cut off. We are talking about cards, right?

[tbob]

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Plenty of trimmed T206s residing in PSA 8 and 9 holders and plenty of cards rejected for trimming when they aren't, just size differences coming off the presses.

[Bridwell]

I agree with tbob. It seems like PSA slabbed some trimmed T206 cards, especially in their early days. Some of the lower cert numbers, such as with 3's to 5's at the beginning of the cert numbers. Some of these look very small in the holders to be getting 7's and 8's from PSA.

Another example of how it's better to buy the card, not the slab.

Ron R