Trimmed or Miscut at factory

tombo

I have been burned a few times by cards that according to PSA were "evid. of trim". I've tried to do some studying on this and gathered that a card can be smaller than normal dimensions (factory miscut), but not necessarily trimmed. A trimmed or altered dimension card has a wavy ( in and out border) or some little "dog ear" at the very corner? Is that all I should be looking for? Thanks for your help

clydecoolidge

It sort of depends on what year and issues you're talking about. There's certain things to look for on those different variables, like rough cuts and whatnot. I'm no expert on this however.

tombo

Thanks

jimq112

I've had good luck scanning at high resolution. If you scan high enough (1600 dpi+) it gets real easy to see if it's a factory cut or trimmed. I'm sure not everybody uses the same method to trim them, but all the trimmed ones I've seen have been pretty obvious under high magnification.

One card that is always rejected as trimmed is the 1968 opeechee stargell #86. I think it's almost always factory cut undersize, one of the OPC guys can tell you more.