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Posted By: warshawlaw

I recently purchased a vintage scrapbook (really a vintage pile of pages as it turned out) because a pretty rare set of boxing cards was in it and I needed one for my set. The cards were cut into silhouettes around the fighters' images (like an E125 looks) and nicely pasted down on the page. Now, the set has been "ruined" by the cutting and tbe book has been ruined by aging, so I'm keeping the one "card" I need anyway cutting up the book to get at the cards.

My feeling is that you can cut up whatever you own and sell it as you wish but that the card makers that cut up items to the point where they don't bear any resemblance to their original items are not doing a service to the collecting public. I'd rather not own a shard of a Ruth bat and know that the bat still exists than own a chip and feel that I have participated in the destruction of an historical artifact.