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Al C.risafulliA lot of the trimmed cards in the prewar arena have nothing whatsoever to do with investors and deception.
A lot of trimmed T and E cards were trimmed in the 70s and 80s by collectors who just wanted their cards to fit better in the plastic sheets that were available at the time. Deception had nothing to do with it. It was done for aesthetic, storage and display reasons. Unfortunately we're living with it now, because if we want untrimmed cards in our collection, we have to be vigilant about identifying cards that were trimmed down 30 years ago, and are often tougher to detect than cards that were trimmed two weeks ago by a card doctor looking to get a T206 into an 8 holder.
-Al