Hey, why didn't anybody ever tell me that old judges come in different sizes?

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Posted By: Vognar Julie

I've been in mourning ever since Lipset's April auction, because I bid stupidly and got stuck with 2 Cracker Jacks and no 19th century cards. Halley, your Old Judge Pud Galvin looks very familiar...

So I called Terry Knause, headed for the last show in Philadelphia, and he provided me with a nice Scrapps Brouthers and a great Old Judge O'Rourke. O.K, so an O'Rourke isn't a Hamilton, but I don't have $4000+ dollars ANYWAY.
BUT, to get to the point: my O'Rourke, perfectly proportioned, is 1/4 inch shorter than 3 of my other Old Judges, and the same size as one of the others. So I called Mark Macrae, my mentor, to ask if I'd been robbed, and he said he had Old Judges that were practically square, and that 1/4 inch difference in
size was perfectly normal for Old Judges. How does PSA grade the things? "Trimmed"?