Exact measurements on '55 Bowman baseball

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• cravetopps Posts: 1,134

  June 19, 2007 3:24PM

  2-1/2 x 3-3/4

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• Mickey71 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭

  June 19, 2007 3:50PM

  The sizes vary with the 55 Bowmans. I've seen many oversized. You have to check the edges to see if they are consistant all the way to the corner. Show us board members a scan.
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• lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭

  June 19, 2007 7:54PM

  
  
  << <i>The sizes vary with the 55 Bowmans. I've seen many oversized. You have to check the edges to see if they are consistant all the way to the corner. Show us board members a scan.
  Mickey71 >>
  
  
  
  
  
  ....and for every OVERsized card there would logically have to be an UNDERsized card cut from the same sheet.....

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• stown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭

  June 20, 2007 12:21AM

  You may want to PM mikeschmidt about this. He's the local resident guru on '55 Bowmans.

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• mikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭

  June 20, 2007 12:36AM

  Basically -- size does not matter on this issue.
  
  As noted, these cards came from packs in VARIOUS sizes, although the standard size mentioned is the correct one. Many who were around for the Paris, TN find personally experienced this (although I did not participate at the time, as I was only 11...)
  
  So basically, you can have a standard size card that is indeed a trimmed-down version of an oversized card. Undersize cards may not be trimmed, as many left the factory that way. The only card I would say is foolproof is an oversized example with tiny breaks in the border edges -- which is also common on the issue. For what it is worth, 1955 Bowmans were cut slightly differently than many other contemporaneously produced cards. As such, it is not the easiest issue by which to determine trimming, even amongst the experts.
  
  Finally, there has been a proliferation of ultra-high grade 1955 Bowman baseball cards that ended up primarily in GAI holder in the past 3-4 years. The vast majority of those are trimmed and/or re-glossed.
  
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