'75 Topps Baseball - SHEET CUT questions
Dallas88
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Hello - I have some questions for the 1975 Topps baseball guys....
How do you tell if a card is sheet cut? Is it possible from a scan (like an ebay scan)?
I assume sheet-cut means simply "not cut at the factory" - but how in the world could someone know "where" a card was cut?
Is this prevalent in '75 Topps baseball?
Any info would be appreciated!
Dal
How do you tell if a card is sheet cut? Is it possible from a scan (like an ebay scan)?
I assume sheet-cut means simply "not cut at the factory" - but how in the world could someone know "where" a card was cut?
Is this prevalent in '75 Topps baseball?
Any info would be appreciated!
Dal
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The best advice that I can give as a burn victim myself, of the 75 baseball sheet cut scam, is DO NOT buy anything in a BVG/BGS holder. They grade the sheet cuts and do not ID them as such. The sheet cuts once removed from the holder are fairly easy to identify, but in the holder it is hard to tell.
Once removed from the holder the sheet cut cards will exhibit extreme arching of the card and will have edges and corners that look like they were cut by laser. If you have any non-sheet cut cards, look at the edge cuts with a magnifier, you will see the normal grain cut of the production process, sheet cut cards will not have that grain cut.
Scott Jeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94)
<< <i>Hi Dallas88,
The best advice that I can give as a burn victim myself, of the 75 baseball sheet cut scam, is DO NOT buy anything in a BVG/BGS holder. They grade the sheet cuts and do not ID them as such. The sheet cuts once removed from the holder are fairly easy to identify, but in the holder it is hard to tell.
Once removed from the holder the sheet cut cards will exhibit extreme arching of the card and will have edges and corners that look like they were cut by laser. If you have any non-sheet cut cards, look at the edge cuts with a magnifier, you will see the normal grain cut of the production process, sheet cut cards will not have that grain cut.
Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
Ebay UserId : sjeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94) >>
Minus the blanket statement above - the tell-tale sign of a sheet cut card graded by BGS/BVG is when the overall grade is very high and the surface subgrade is one-half to one full point lower than the rest of the other grades. If you see a 1975 Topps card that has been graded BVG with subgrades of 9.5/9.5/9.5/9 - I will bet my bottom dollar it will not cross 98 times out of 100.
Where else can you get this kind of information? Is this board the best, or what?
Jim
<< <i>Man,
Where else can you get this kind of information? Is this board the best, or what?
Jim >>
Jim:
Many of us are happy to share our knowledge that came at the expense of our wallets. In the 2001 time period - there was a rash of freshly-graded 1970s OPC baseball cards coming down from Cananda. Many of us were quite excited - they were all graded by BGS at the time (pre-BVG), and many of us spent tons of money on some of those cards. After a few months - it was clear that they were not how OPC originally manufactured them, and it took a few months before the realization that they were sheet-cut came to fruition. I actually credit BMW Sportscards for being one of the first to espouse that knowledge out onto the hobby -- and know there is a pretty well known list of sheet cutters out there.
(don't ask us to post such a list, though - because I won't. It is pretty obvious if you track Ebay and other venues)
This is why I will continue to read these boards. There is some wonderful information out there to be found, with knowledgable collectors to share it.
Best regards
Dal