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Posted By: E, Daniel

In Australia we called it 'cut along the dotted line'....

And if we can judge and grade cards based on how well printers overlayed colors to give registration, or placed sheets in cutting machines to display even borders, or whether cards stayed long or short times in tobacco pouches or candy boxes and thus were heavily or lightly stained, and how a card with writing in pencil can be improved for grade with the correct eraser - but penned with ink harshly assessed, and gee....I could go on forever and ever on ways we allow cards to be estimated for condition that might seem obsessively ridiculous.

I'm comfortable judging whether a hand cut card has halfway symmetrical cuts - not perfect but reasonable, as opposed to wavy distorted proportions that make the card look anything but a baseball card and more of a scrap.
You're not.

Surprise surprise we see things differently.


Daniel



Edited for spelling