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Posted By: <b>Glen V</b><p>Leland's last auction had two Rice Stix cards that were "cut by hand at the factory". Just wondering if all Rice Stix were hand cut? <a href="http://www.lelands.com/bid.aspx?lot=1470&auction=412" target=_new>http://www.lelands.com/bid.aspx?lot=1470&auction=412</a>

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>and mine isn't....regards

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>My Rice Stix Dizzy is also not handcut. I think this is just wishful thinking by Lelands, which unfortunately some bidders accepted as true.<br /><br />Common sense tells me that unless every single card was handcut (and they weren't), then there's no way to tell if a card was "handcut at the factory" in 1935, or handcut last week by your two year old son. Perhaps someone else has more information than me on this, but I just can't see how you can tell when or where a card was cut with a pair of scissors.

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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>There are quite a few issues that are hand-cut. <br /><br />How does one determine if the cut was done by scissors, razor blade or laser? <br /><br />How does one know when the card was cut? <br /><br />How does a grading service know what is an acceptable level of size on these type of cards. <br /><br />What would be more valuable a crudely hand-cut card that has lot of extra border (that can be recut to NM/MT status) or a neatly cut card with sharp corners but very little border?