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Opinions - does this card have a tilt?

BobSBobS Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
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Not sure on this one. Tilt or no tilt?

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    As Robert DeNiro might say "little bit, little bit".
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • hhmag70hhmag70 Posts: 2,107
    I think all I see is the card tilted in the slab, hard to tell for sure.
  • CrazyMind2017CrazyMind2017 Posts: 1,205 ✭
    Based on pixels, yes, it's definitely tilted. It's slight, but it's unquestionable.

    Also, when I rotated the entire image 1 degree clockwise, the bottom line of red (the lower border of the box in which it says Mickey Mantle outfield) is almost perfectly flat, but the other three printed borders (the borders of printing, not of the whole card) are somewhat angled. So in addition to all the printed information being slightly tilted on the card, the printed information itself is a bit of a trapezoid shape.

    Still a nice card, still worthy of being a 7, but maybe not quite as much eye appeal as some others.
  • jdmi32jdmi32 Posts: 160
    Looks like a diamond cut to me.
    Keith
  • BobSBobS Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    Thanks so far. I thought the card was just tilted in the slab, but the pixel breakdown is some good work.

    This card is very, very difficult to find centered nicely and with no or very little tilt.

    Also comes out of register and with print buggers a lot.

    Nicest one I've come across in about a year, so I had to buyimage
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    Still, it's a very nice card.
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Still, it's a very nice card. >>



    I agree. You have to look for the tilt, it does not pop out at you.

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  • miconelegacymiconelegacy Posts: 3,052 ✭
    Nice 66 Topps Mantle!! Looks great, the slight tilt not noticed at first glance. Very nicely centered.
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Nice card, yes IMO it does have a slight tilt. T/B




    << <i>So it's less of a straight tilt and more of a combination of a tilt and a miscut. >>




    Good eye.
    Good for you.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nicest one I've come across in about a year, so I had to buyimage >>



    Congrats on the Mantle. image
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  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    I have a feeling the seller intentionally angled it in the slab before scanning, to help mask the cards slightly-off dimensions.
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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Slight tilt but very nice card.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    obvious diamond cut

    (opposite sides are parallel, but corners are not square)
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