How where t206's cut?

[T206.org]

Great info, guys!

That explains this Mattern too then, agreed?
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=143480

[Ronnie73]

I would say yes. The cutter tends to tear instead of cutting just as Steve said, when the blade is dull or in my experence with the cutter, the closest sheet to the table tends to have the ruffest cut, even with a sharp blade.

[Phillies*phan]

So, I'm thinking this card is untrimmed but they will be scared to grade it do to it being a 7 or 8.

[Ronnie73]

Has the card ever been rejected from a grading service? I have alot of Topps OPC cards from the 1970's that are graded PSA 8 and some of the cards look as if the card stock was folded multiple times to break the fibers and the cards were pulled apart. I know alot of them were like this and maybe thats why they were not rejected. If theres no evidence of trimming, it should grade but you can never tell with PSA and SGC which way its gonna go.

[Phillies*phan]

No. It hasn't been submitted yet. I just think both companies are scared to grade anything they're not sure of right now.

[Ronnie73]

I would say, since the card measures correctly and i'm thinking you measured top to bottom and side to side. Because it has all sharp corners, you should also measure diagonally corner to corner which most people don't, and do it both ways and the measurement needs to match exact both ways or its most likely trimmed. The only reason I mention this is that top border looks a little off. If they match, I'd give it a shot and have it graded.

[FrankWakefield]

I used one of those about 40+ years ago. I worked for a small town newspaper that had been in business since the late 1800's...

The table had grooves lightly etched into it, a grid, like graph paper, that was of great help in aligning paper on the table. That big handle would be back over to the right, out of the way, while doing that. Depicted just under the handle and in the center of that table is a small wheel. That controlled a piece of metal that was at the back of the table. Turning it one way moved that piece, that stop, toward the front, turning the other way moved it back. We'd put the paper on the table, move that little wheel to adjust the depth, then move that big wheel at the top which lowered this big piece of metal to hold the material in place. Once it was down so the paper couldn't move, then we'd work that big handle to the left as it is shown. My recollection is that they kept a piece of wood between the blade and tabletop when it wasn't in use, to preserve the blade. It would slice through paper like, as they used to say in the hills around here, like a hot knife through butter.

I agree, I think this would be what was used. It could cut with great precision with just a little bit of practice.

[jcmtiger]

Doug, I don't think it would get a 7 or 8 anyway. The top left corner has a small problem, there is a white line running downward from the right elbow.
And the back has dirt or staining that will affect the grade

Just things I saw, Joe.

[ArchStanton]

I just got a couple of quick pics of this today. It looks similar to the one in the link.

[mkdltn]

Awhile back I posted an article about American Litho, written shortly after the new facility was set up in 1897. Page 623 has a picture of the electric motor driven cutters installed at the time.

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=125899