What is a diamond cut?

Counselor

What is a "diamond cut"? Does this refer to the card itself not being rectanglar or to the image on the card? Is a slight tilt of the image on a vintage card unusual? And how bad does a diamond cut have to be to get a "Miscut" qualifier?

Stone193

A true diamond cut card is one that is NOT square and is more in the rhomboid shape like a parallelogram.



IMO, a card that had square 90 degree corners but looks diamond cut is just a "tilted" card.

mike

Stone193

On the question of slight tilts and vintage - in the 52T set, e.g., tilts are all over the place, IMO.

Check out the top border on this Murray card:



A slight tilt is not a distraction to me. Now, a diamond cut hurts my eyes - I think you might see a very, very slight one get graded without a qualifier but otherwise the card is a no go IMO.

mike

storm888

bump

jamesgotpoorman

2 1/2 years for a

Stone193

Wow!

That must be some kind of record.

mike

Darin

A true diamond cut card is one that is NOT square and is more in the rhomboid shape like a parallelogram.

Okay, now what's a rhomboid and a parallelogram?

BobaFett72

well this is a rhomboid

BobaFett72

and this is a parallelogram.

gumbyfan

and this is a diamond cutter