1950 Royal Stars of Baseball dimensions?

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Posted By: don fluckinger/scd

Hey, does anyone collect these and can anyone give me a definitive answer on this reader question?

Thanks for any help you can give.

And here's to everyone's safe, happy, and healthy New Year. Cheers!

--don

I have a suggestion for the next issue of the "Standard Catalog of
Baseball Cards". My suggestion concerns 1950 Royal Stars of Baseball cards
(on page 329 of the 2007 catalog). The card size listed in the Standard
Catalog is used by grading companies to determine the card's grading status.
I just got a card back from SGC that couldn't be graded because it was
"undersized". The Standard Catalog lists the size for these cards as 2.5 x
3.5. There's no way this is correct. The 2.5 dimension is too short (it
would leave no top and bottom border), and the 3.5 dimension is too long
(probably the size of the entire box). I suggest more suitable dimensions
should be 2 and five eighths by 3 and one quarter.