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Posted By: barrysloate

Bob- The only guess I would have about sheet cut is that it means some collector found a sheet and decided to cut it down to create mint cards. Here's another one for you: I recently sent an Allegheny card to PSA and it came back an 8 (good news) but with the qualifier "hand cut" (odd news). I checked the population report and discovered that of about ten or so cards submitted, three received the handcut designation. That is rather interesting, because those familiar with the Allegheny set know the entire population derives from a single deck found in the late 1980's. So either all were hand cut, or none were. How could this unique deck of cards be cut in two different manners? Did their machine break halfway through and someone just took out a pair of scissors to finish the job? Obviously, there is a mistake being made but what can you do.