This was my dad's 1954 Topps Ted Williams when he was a kid. He had a wallet with some sleeves in it for holding cards which were not quite big enough to hold those big Topps cards, so he pragmatically sliced the edges off to squeeze them in.
Of course he only did this to the star cards because those were the ones he wanted to carry around with him. So Ted Williams, Eddie Mathews, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella and a few others got this treatment.
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