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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5
Can't they both be true? Mastro claimed in the interview to not have touched the top and bottom borders. According to him, whoever cut it from the sheet cut it that size, but left massive borders on the left and right, which he then trimmed. So the card could be short, and still have wide borders on the sides.
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I suppose that's true. Neither Mastro or Olbermann / O'Keefe in that other thing I referred to said specifically how it was either too big or too small (horizontal v. vertical, or both). The ESPN video seemed to insinuate it wasn't wide enough, but that may have just been my perception.
The thing I had not questioned really before watching this new Mastro interview, was how many people were really concerned about the size of cards the way we are now in the late 80's and early 90's? I was a kid in the hobby then, but was collecting "old" (the term vintage was not yet really applied to cards then) cards voraciously, and I can tell you that would not have been a question I would have thought to ask in 1990. Unless the card just obviously presented cut or small. I hear that and think well, probably Jim Copeland never asked Mastro anything like that. Maybe Sotheby's didn't either - hell, probably. They didn't know anything about cards.