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Posted By: runscott

The bottom was trimmed, not the top. Most likely scenario is that the bottom border also slanted to the left and someone just "straightened it out". There probably wasn't enought to work with on the top.

I had an interesting email discussion about "reasons for trimming" the other day. As collectors, most of us assume that all trimming is done to increase value, usually for slabbing. My bro recently auctioned a t206 Flick that was heavily trimmed all the way around - my opinion is that the card probably had heavy corner rounding and fuzziness, so the owner simply "cut" that stuff off to make the card look straighter and give it better eye appeal. Certainly there could not have been any thoughts to have the card graded - maybe the trimming was done long ago before grading even existed and the owner didn't give a rat's *ss about "value" of the card.