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UnwoundSageUnwoundSage Posts: 496
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Is it possible to have mid to late 1970s OPC baseball with perfectly smooth well cut edges and they not be sheet cut?

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  • miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definitely. From my experience, for my late 1970's I have the sharpest edges on the 1976's I own, though there are some clean cuts for all years. The degree of roughness can vary quite a bit though, and it is easy to find really rough ones for each year.
  • Gemyanks10Gemyanks10 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭
    Speaking only for 1980 baseball as this is one of the sets i'm currently working on, there are cards with smooth edges, but they seem extremely scare compared to the normal rough cuts. For my set, i've been only buying smooth edged cards but they don't seem to come up often. In fact, even the cards i own aren't perfectly smooth, there still is a very minor amount of jaggedness, but nothing compared to the usually rough cut. I love OPC but for some reason i'm not a fan of the extreme rough cut so i decided to build my set that way, but will probably take years to do it. I'm still not entirely sure how a card with an extreme rough cut and rounded edges warrants a psa 10. I know theres been threads about it before but it does bother me lol.

    Jimmy

    Always looking for OPC "tape intact" baseball wax boxes, and 1984 OPC baseball PSA 10's for my set. Please PM or email me if you have any available.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Is it possible to have mid to late 1970s OPC baseball with perfectly smooth well cut edges and they not be sheet cut? >>


    Try sending a "PM" to Tom (tsalems1) ... he is the resident OPC guru on the boards.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is possible, though most issues for 70s baseball are going to be rough cut. I've opened quite a few OPC baseball packs from 72-79 and almost all cards have rough cut on at least one side. As an OPC collector, this is actually good to see, as a 70s OPC card with four smooth sides is very possibly sheet cut.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    O-PEE-CHEE, London Ontario would begin the cutting process in the factory with a sharp blade. Over time, the blade would become dull, and then even more dull.

    The initial cuts would produce some very sharp cuts, but then it was all downhill after that.
  • UnwoundSageUnwoundSage Posts: 496


    << <i> as a 70s OPC card with four smooth sides is very possibly sheet cut. >>



    That's what worries me. I have a few that look sharper than most Topps cards from the same year. Don't want to submit to PSA just to get EOTs on all of them.
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