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Posted By: Bryan

Cutting up a Charlie Gehringer signature isn't the worst thing in the world. They are not that hard to come across. However cutting up a signature that is much more rare is downright wrong. But it does beg the question, who really wants a partial Charlie Gehringer signature anyways? It really does make you think about the mentality of the new card collector. Some seem to rather have a numbered card with a "ickey Mant" signature than an actual full Mickey Mantle autograph at a fraction of the price.

To try to answer the jersey question, most of the swatch cards of the older players like Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, ect... are actually swatches from their pants, not jerseys. Initially they called all swatches jersey swatches but now they label the swatch as to whether it came from the jersey or the pants.

If the card company does have an actual jersey (Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, ect...) they do cut it all up. And the swatches that contain portions of the lettering or jersey patches command much more money.