Why authentic ?

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Posted By: <b>scott ingold</b><p>This just came back witht he assigned grade. My ? is why ? The back is clean. What am i missing ?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1132700156.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>once they know that the card has a dotted line around it, thery want to see all of it...gowdshonesttruth.

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Posted By: <b>Al Crisafulli</b><p>Hand-cut cards are tough, from a grading standpoint.<br /><br />On one hand, that's a beautiful card.<br /><br />On the other hand, there's no way to tell when that right edge was cut - back when the card was initially cut off the strip, or ten minutes before it was sent in for grading. <br /><br />If a T206 card has three nice edges and one ragged one, the ragged edge will bring down the grade. If someone were to snip off the ragged edge with a paper cutter, the card would be rejected as trimmed.<br /><br />With a hand-cut card, if the card has three nice edges and one ragged one, it would be possible to snip off the ragged edge and have the card look perfect - when, in fact, it had been altered to improve the grade. But since the card is SUPPOSED to be cut, it's tougher to tell what the intent of the cut was - to separate the card from the strip, or to alter the card to improve the grade.<br /><br />So if there are dotted lines, most of the time they want to see ALL the dotted lines.<br /><br />I'm not saying I agree with it, but at least it makes sense to me.<br /><br />-Al

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Posted By: <b>Paul Stratton</b><p>If the cards came in a strip, how can each card in the strip have both lines? I thought they were supposed to be cut ON the lines. So if you want the Mathewson to get a number grade the cards next to it are now "authentic"?

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Posted By: <b>Al Crisafulli</b><p>I'm not the grading company, but here's what I would think:<br /><br />The cards came 10 to a strip. That would mean that the 8 cards on the inside of the strip could potentially have lines on both the left and the right. The card on the left edge could only have a strip on the left, and vice-versa for the card on the right edge.<br /><br />And if the card was cut with the dotted line visible on both sides, the cards to the left and the right would grade "authentic".<br /><br />I guess.<br /><br />Sometimes I see these graded and labeled "hand cut".<br /><br />I suppose there's also a possibility that this card in question is short from top to bottom, but with hand cut cards I automatically think it's a L-R issue.<br /><br />-Al<br /><br />Anybody here have a strip of these? Where was Matty positioned on the strip?

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Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>inconsistency