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Posted By: mr. moses

has always been that hand cut meant cut with a scissors or some other tool to separate one card from a group or a card from a package AS INTENDED by the manufacturer or consumer. These are cards that ONLY exist as singles because they were hand cut like strip cards AND THEY WERE INTENDED to be enjoyed as singles. Box tops and cereal cards, candy boxes like the orange borders and Darby would naturally fall into that category........ What about those sheets with 25 cards on them like the ones with Babe Ruth, actresses, or the one with playing card themes? If separated would they be hand cut or trimmed? I would go with trimmed if they were produced to exist as a whole however I think such a sheet was intended to be cut into cards. Anomolies like that would generally need to addressed by the collecting hobby but I think the key is being consistent. The coupon cards like Zeenuts and Red Man that are without coupons are trimmed regardless of how or when it was accomplished. Just my opinion obviously.