1967 Topps baseball experts, is this trimmed or ok?

digicat

I just got this 1967 Topps Orlando Cepeda off of Ebay, and when it arrived, immediatly noticed that the card looked a little narrow. When I got home, I compared it to a 1992 Bowman card that I just pulled from a pack. The Cepeda is a little taller than the usual card, but narrower. Think this could have been a trim job? I compared it to about 50 1967 Topps cards I have (raw and graded), and noticed some size variation between all the cards (including one common card that was cut exactly like the Cepeda).

In the pic below, I did a little photoshop magic and diced up the 1992 Bowman card so you can see how the 4 edges of the Cepeda compare.

Under my loupe, the corner wear on the card seems fairly consistant, as in, it doesn't look cut off.

What do you think? Trimmed, or just cut weird?

handyman

I think the left edge my be trimmed

perkdog

Unless the scan image is playing tricks on me I think the left side does look trimmed

Carew29

My eye is catching the left side as well. Hard to explain, but that is what my eye goes to first. So something ain't right. But then again PSA graders have proved me wrong many a time.

RonBurgundy

Loupe it again and as you look at the left side, pay close attention to the "threads" in the cardboard. If they all run the same direction all the way down the left edge, you might be ok. If, however, at some point on the left edge, you don't see the threads anymore and the surface looks smoother, chances are it's a trim job, "polished" up with an emery board. Hope this helps.



Ron

digicat

I just did another loupe of the card. Something I didn't notice before....

ALL of my 1967s (graded and raw, all picked up from various places) have some texture to the edges. The Cepeda is completely smooth on all 4 edges.

Is the semi-rough cut on this year common enough to make a smooth-edged card a suspect?

basestealer

The card has diamond centering on the right side (naturally, it would also have it on the left side)... except the left side isn't. The top left border needs to be wider to make up for the narrow top right border, just as the bottom left border needs to be narrower to accomodate the wide bottom right border. I hope that makes sense. Looks trimmed, and not very good either, because it draws attention to itself because whoever did it payed no attention to asthetics.

TNTonPMS

How about the back of the card ?

Stingray

Hey Handyman, could you make your sig line pictures any bigger??

handyman

What are you talking about, it shows up on my computer only about the size of a dime. How big is it?

handyman

Also WTF is your problem with me!!??

julen23

i don't think that's your fault handy, reggie still has a big ego, the biggest in the history of baseball IMHO.

"you cant stop reggie,
you can only hope to contain him"

julen

handyman

Seriously wtf is he talking about, How big is the pic?
Does anyone have a problem with me?

julen23

na nana parnoia will destroy ya!!!!

julen

ps: stop trippin' boo

EagleEyeKid

Left side is definitely trimmed.
At least the corners are sharp