Has this happened to you before?

Bishtw

I'm working on completing the Redskins HOF'ers rookie set. One if the cards I needed was 1952 Bowman Wayne Millner. I picked it up in BGS 7 slab. Cracked it out and sent it in. It came back minsizerq. Pretty disappointing to say the least. I guess I shouldn't have cracked it but instead sent it in for crossover with a min grade. Live and learn I guess. And seeing as I cracked it out there is no recourse with either the seller or BGS.

_EagleEyeKid_

Yea that sux.

ArtVandelay

Unfortunately, the card looks like it has been trimmed top to bottom. Definitely, a live and learn situation and just try not to make the same mistake. With a hobby saturated with trimmed graded cards it becomes even more important than ever to be critical of the card even if it is encased.

Stone193

Can you provide the exact measurements?

Bishtw

@Stone193 said:
Can you provide the exact measurements?

2 ¹/16 × 3 ¹/16

jfkheat

@ArtVandelay said:
Unfortunately, the card looks like it has been trimmed top to bottom.

If PSA thought it was trimmed they would have sent it back with ALTERED or TRIMMED on the label.

Bishtw

@jfkheat said:

@ArtVandelay said:
Unfortunately, the card looks like it has been trimmed top to bottom.

If PSA thought it was trimmed they would have sent it back with ALTERED or TRIMMED on the label.

The 48 Leaf Bullet Bill Dudley in the same submission was returned "Altered". I bought this card raw and while still disappointed, I knew that's always a possibility. Having it happen on a BGS slabbed card kinda threw me.

Stone193

I can't remember.

Is the tolerance for being short 1/32"?

edit: it's 1/16" short - I would consider a resub? I had a card that was marked MC - did a resub and it came back graded - was very slightly diamond cut.

PatsGuy5000

I have broken open several SGC cards and received the same thing from PSA. I now measure before if I decide to send to PSA.

remedylane

I subbed a modern era Jordan card that I personally opened that came back as trimmed .

Bishtw

@Stone193 said:
I can't remember.

Is the tolerance for being short 1/32"?

edit: it's 1/16" short - I would consider a resub? I had a card that was marked MC - did a resub and it came back graded - was very slightly diamond cut.

Is the tolerance really 1/32?
Thats very tight, especially for these vintage bowman's. I bought about 200 raw 54 bowman that a friend's father ripped when he was a kid and the difference between the longest card and the shortest is probably ⁵/16's or worse.
That said and back to this card, the bottom right of this card does have a werid, less than straight edge to it. I wonder if that is something they saw that bgs missed.