R315's factory cut?

[brob28]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if the R315's were ever factory cut into single cards? I have seen many three card panels, not so many singles. I have a hand cut Ruth single that I sent in for grading and SCG will only authenticate due to it's being hand cut. While I'm at it does anyone out there have good information on the set other than the Standard Catalogue type descriptions?

Thanks in advance for any input.

[glchen]

I have no idea on this either, but is it possible that the yellow R315's that use thicker stock were factory cut? I have not seen panels for the yellow ones.

[leftygrove10]

There have been several posts on this forum recently regarding these cards. I have seen lots of singles from the set. Some people (like Leon) have 3 card and 5 card panels that I'm sure he'll show.

I have seen SGC give numeric grades to these cards. I have a Grove that was graded SGC 84 (see scan at bottom). From what I'm told, there is a fine size tolerance that SGC uses when deciding how to grade the particular card.

Here is a link to my website which shows all of the cards from the set:
http://www.bandkgreen.net/R315

More information is available at the Old Cardboard link below:
http://www.oldcardboard.com/r/r315/r...?cardsetID=873

[Leon]

Yeap, we just had a recent thread about these....as far as hand cut vs factory cut...I am not sure. I think many were issued as vertical strips and that's why we see them fairly often in uncut form. On the other hand I have only seen this one horizontal type strip. As with any strip card I am sure it's how they are cut, and more importantly how close they are cut, which determines a numerical or AUT grade.....regards

[leftygrove10]

Leon.... I had not noticed this before, but your horizontal strip has four Type B cards and one Type D card (the Reynolds). I wonder why they made the Reynolds card differently? I would have thought that all of the cards on a given strip would be the same Type. For example, your vertical strip are all Type A's.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

Leon.... I had not noticed this before, but your horizontal strip has four Type B cards and one Type D card (the Reynolds). I wonder why they made the Reynolds card differently? I would have thought that all of the cards on a given strip would be the same Type. For example, your vertical strip are all Type A's.

Hi Brad
I have noticed that too. I really don't have a theory why they did 2 different types of printing on one strip..and I am not sure the horizontal strip was even a normal production run either, given it's scarcity.

[brob28]

Thanks Gents, I'll definately call SCG about any specfic card measurements in order to get a numerical grade, they were adamant that these came factory cut.

Neat story (at least I think so) as to how I got this. In the 80's I was 12 and my neighbors Grandfather called him to say he found 2 boxes of cards in his attic and would bring them by for him when he visited. Can imagine how crazy our 12 year old minds were going! He brought two boxes of 315 panels, probably had 30 in each box. We were disapointed that they were not "real" cards at the time! The Ruth was the only one that had been cut and I convinved my neighbor to give it to me. I often wonder where those boxes are now!