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warshawlawDo you mean "trimmed" instead of "miscut"? Because there is no problem for a grading company to grade a miscut card--they do it all the time. Trimmed is a different story. The lower card looks damaged to me, not altered. The upper card looks altered. IF SGC slabbed it as authentic of its own volition, I am guessing that they made the same determination.
BTW, 1.5 is too high for it--my card in that shape gets a "1".
Also, do you know whether SGC was asked to authenticate or whether it did so itself? If you ask them not to grade just to authenticate, they will.