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Trimmed?

mdkuommdkuom Posts: 969 ✭✭✭
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The upper right border does not look right but I'm far from an expert on this.

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  • LakersFANLakersFAN Posts: 288 ✭✭
    looks factory to me....if u notice the left side it also has a wavey look to it starting a bit higher......juss my 2 cents
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    I Vote.........

    not trimmed.

    I don't much like the chipped blue, though.

    The top does look ALOT nicer than the bottom.
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  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    So this was maybe a 5 and now it's a 6? Why would anyone bother to increase the value of a card by $10?

    It looks fine to me by the way.
  • relaxedrelaxed Posts: 569 ✭
    I agree with Storm. I have a bunch of 1963's and the bottoms with the chips seem to take away from the beauty of the card. Still a nice card.
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  • hofautoshofautos Posts: 1,934
    if they were going to trim it, they should have started on the bottom...
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would say trimmed. The upper right/lower left both look clipped to me and the "opposite corner" pattern is one I see a whole lot. I'd love to see the back, which is generally more telling. That said, I see a quite a few in PSA slabs too - so factory is not out of the question - though there is less than 100% of a standard card there - would have to be grading error rather than policy IMHO.
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a lot cards just like that. The cards were stored upright with other cards and stuff piled on top of them so that the two corners on top wore but the other two corners didn't wear as much. That card is not trimmed.
  • leadoff4leadoff4 Posts: 2,392 ✭
    Not trimmed... have seen a ton of '63s like this. Why waste time trimming when a color job is what it neededimage
  • PoppaJPoppaJ Posts: 2,818 ✭
    definitely Not Trimmed ... and the main reason I sold my 63 topps set last year.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭
    There are so many trimmed cards floating around in holders out there...but this is not one of them.
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  • clydecoolidgeclydecoolidge Posts: 863 ✭
    I think it's the "illusion" of the slab. If you notice, the upper left side is off of the little holdy thing and the upper right side is right up against it. In my experience, this can give the illusion of a "wavy" border. It doesn't look trimmed to me regardless of my David Copperfield explanation above, lol.
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