Is this mantle trimmed?

italianstallionyankees

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I will let the experts decide on this card 1962 topps #200 Mickey Mantle

2cardguys

I'm certainly no expert, but boy the top of that card doesn't have me feeling warm...just fuzzy... if you get my drift

jeffcbay

With 13 feedbacks, I would leave that one on the shelf. Plus, he's a coin/currency guy, and you know those guys can't be trusted. (hehe)

72skywalker

i always ask ebay sellers if the card has ever been trimmed or altered in any way. If they come back with a flat out no I sometimes go for it. If they come back with "I don't know if it ever has before I owned it or start telling you a long story about how they don't think it is I would stay clear.

italianstallionyankees

<< <i>With 13 feedbacks, I would leave that one on the shelf. Plus, he's a coin/currency guy, and you know those guys can't be trusted. (hehe) >>



lol

$39 was my limit

PoppaJ

The seller seems to be an upright individual. The only drawback is that he/she doesn't engage in the 3rd party grading business and thus only sells raw currency notes and sportscards.

If the card in question has been altered, it was probably bought or traded that way by the seller, who seems to be willing to offer the best descriptions known to him about the card.

I would simply contact the seller and voice my concerns as such, and also ask if the card can be returned if it fails to grade by a 3rd party.

JMHO,
PoppaJ

EagleEyeKid

Trimmed.

I like how the top edge starts to slope/dip from left to right,
or are the borders naturally that small?

Stone193

Looking at the scan - on my office screen - there seems to be a bit of 'wave' to the top border?

Not truly sure tho. Might be using my card trimmer's alert imagination?

mike

Reljac

By no means count this as proof of anything, but I attempted to do a very quick and very dirty size compare.

To do this, I used Microsoft Paint, and I resized a graded PSA Mantle from the same year and this one, so that they are the exact same number of pixels.

I counted the number of pixels for the borders on both cards. My results are as follows:

Image size 234 pixels by 331 pixels for both.
PSA 7 Mantle
Top 9 pixels
Bottom 8 Pixels
Left 9 Pixels
Right 10 pixels

Mantle linked above:
Top 8 pixels
Bottom 8 Pixels
Left 6 Pixels
Right 10 pixels

While, the results indicate that there is likely +/- 1 pixel different on each measurement, It leaves me uncomfortable that the linked mantle is smaller on both TOP + Bottom and Left + Right measurements.

Looks too good to be true.... seller with little feedback... I'd avoid this one.