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DavidI once owned the 79 OPC Set in Uncut Sheets (3 sheets). Though nice looking, it was not in a state that anyone would be cutting mint cards off it. The Gretzky, somewhere in the middle if I recall correctly, was clean other than it had a wrinkle.
To be honest, I don't know what critereon the companies use to grade OPC cards, and, to be honest, don't particuarly care. Due to OPC's natural fro boarders (though the degree varies), how to grade these cards is as much of a philisophical question as a technical one. Some would say that an old OPC can't be Mint unless it has clean/sharp edges, and others will say if it has a clean/borders edges it's not an OPC. And they may both be right! Personally, I find the rough edges to be half of the charm of the issues. It's kind of like Rube Waddell. If Rube had an education, he wouldn't have been nearly as interesting.