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How do you approach buying ungraded cards?

Topps29Topps29 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭
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How many of you who purchase ungraded cards use a ruler or match another card from the same year over the card you wish to buy?

Thoughts?

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  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭


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    Where did you find one of those?
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    Is that the one Allan Hager made and sold for $5.95? There were other versions as well.
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>How many of you who purchase ungraded cards use a ruler or match another card from the same year over the card you wish to buy?

    Thoughts? >>



    In the 1980s I carried a camera case to card shows with cards in it to check size etc of other cards if needed. After a while you just learn what to look for. The case was very handy. It held my lists as well as cards I was buying and selling.
  • ken61ken61 Posts: 55 ✭✭
    I think the best way to tell if a card has been trimmed is to get a group of cards from the same year known to be good, and place the card amongst them. Then look at the edges with a loupe. If trimmed, the card will stick out like a sore thumb.

    I first learned this from a poster named waittilltheytrytosell about ten years ago on these boards. Very sage advice.

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