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Posted By: cmoking

Dan, I bought my cards already graded as Authentic by GAI. I was ok with that as I was happy with the card looked and the price seemed right. But I am still interested to see how one detects or suspects a card has been trimmed. Looking at the Lajoie in person, I would say the bottom left corner is not as suspicious as the left side. It's hard to see in a 2-D scan, but the bottom left corner looks more robust when the card is tilted and one can see the corner dead on (or as dead on as possible when it is in a case). But the left edge has some raised areas that looks like it was due to cutting. I don't think that comes through in the scan.