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Posted By: tbob

Personally, I like it. A great looking rare pre-war card can be slabbed and protected where the grading company arguably feels it is trimmed (note I say arguably because not all AUTH cards I have seen appear to be altered). I'll give you an example- I have all the 1910 Obak Series of 150 cards slabbed in SGC holders (except one which I still need). 2 of the cards I bought from board members came up "trimmed" but I was still able to get SGC to give them AUTH grades and thus keep the set together and in homogenous holders. Perhaps another grading company might have given them a numerical grade but I wanted to keep the set in the same holders for aesthetic reasons, if nothing else. I just wish SGC, GAI and PSA would recognize that the majority of 1909 Obaks were hand cut and give them AUTH status, but that is another story for another day...