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Originally Posted by Runscott
then there's the trimmed Wagner thing, which was kind of a big deal as well. Lot of turning the other way prior to realization that jail-time was inevitable. Now there's barely any room on the soapbox.
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The trimmed Wagner was no longer a secret from the day when PSA slabbed it, grading it NM/MT. Many potential buyers of that card that were sent Xeroxes (no scanners in those days) of the card by up to a dozen different people trying to middle a deal without having to lay out the $20 or $25K the owner wanted for the oversized T-206 with the wavy edge and blunted corners.
As soon as THE card appeared to the public eye PSA graded with four perfect corners and the wavy edge guillotined off (yes, it was chop/impact cut with a long blade, a hammer strike on the opposite from business end of the blade) the cat was out of the bag.
It came as no surprise, really. Stretched and whacked, then bleached T-206 cards were the ordure of the day, and the middle-men trying to turn the Wagner went overboard stressing the sales pitch, "It's oversized. Use your imagination".