Can I get a 2nd opinion on this graded card?

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Posted By: Bob

http://tiny.cc/mMWDw

Just my eyes or is that left border horribly trimmed?

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Posted By: jeffdrum

it is just a faulty scan but it sure looks wavy. Maybe the seller could send you a better scan. Maybe is was graded on Monday though!

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Bob, that has got to be the scan. That card looks like it's melting.

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Posted By: Dave S

Hey Bob...my eyes might be worse than yours...I think both the right and left are bad!

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Posted By: Paul

I agree that it doesn't look ok.

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Posted By: Marc S.

if it is trimmed. I think there is an equal possibility that the card was soaked out of an album, and has ended up warped...one can only tell so much from a scan.

noting this, since many feel that soaking out of an album is not an egregious alteration, unlike trimming....especially considering how many high-grade 1915 CJ's have found their way into the hobby from albums, etc.

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

When I clicked on your tinyurl I got a picture of Eminem naked (), and Barack Obama! Let's stick to baseball cards, man!

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

1st, the link isn't to the card, but to the tiny url site where the link is....



Now I think the card was soaked and bleached a bit. It didn't dry out pressed and flat, but has that wave effect going. It could be trimmed... And it is in a GAI holder, which is good for keeping messy fingers off of the card itself, but not much more.

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Posted By: JimB

Card could have a warp to it, which is not uncommon with such a thin issue. But that much must be a scan problem as well.
JimB

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Posted By: Bob

When I clicked on your tinyurl I got a picture of Eminem naked (), and Barack Obama! Let's stick to baseball cards, man!>

Actually I thought it was Mindy McCready naked and Hillary Clinton. My bad.

I do think the card appears to be hand cut the way the card swerves all over the place. It could be a soaking problem though, whatever, the card would be nice except for the obvious problems.

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Posted By: Dave Haas

I have purchased from this seller before and after sending it in for crossover it came back as trimmed. It was a CSA slab however, not a GAI. He sells alot of CSA graded cards.

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Posted By: T206Collector

...it's pretty obvious the card is not trimmed, but is instead warped. Graders get it wrong on trimming to be sure, but not in this case -- they would not have missed this.

Looking at a warped card in two dimensions, i.e., on a computer screen, will give it a wavy-edged look. It may be that the card was not so warped until it ended up in the holder.



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