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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

At first, when looking at the back of the American Beauty card, I thought it had an inward curve on the left side... a concave cutting. But then I decided that the side is straight, as is evident from looking at the card's front, and what was throwing me was reflection off of the plastic inner sleeve. So the miscut is based on that close right margin when looking at the front. The card looks to be the correct width. American Beauty cigarette packages were narrower than the other brands, AB cards are all trimmed down a bit thinner to fit in the package. And it seems that all of the trimming for AB cards to fit was done on one side, seldom does one come across an AB white border card with even front side margins.

Having said all of that, I think that SGC would grade that card, because SGC should know what I've said above... but I have minimal experience with getting cards graded. You could mail it to them in the holder and ask them how they'd grade it, let them call you, and then you could tell them whether to break him out and reslab him, or to just mail him back in the PSA slab.

As for what I'd do, I'd bust both of them out, save the little grading slips, pitch the plastic bits, and collect the white border set ungraded.