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Brad L.As far as hand cut cards go, I'm sure you can trim them until there is no border left and still receive a grade. I can't imagine there would be law/rule against when a hand cut card was actually trimmed down. I'f I bought a torn out Post card, I'd like to think that I could trim that sucker so it would present as card and not a torn piece of cardboard.
As far as removing wax from the front of a card. Nobody is going to convince me that it is an illegal/frowned upon alteration when that wax stain was not meant to be on my card in the first place. The dress example in the definition is in no way comparable since the alteration on a dress would not be reversable if you took material away from the dress (i.e. removing sleeves or shortening the dress). Theoretically I could add wax back on my freakin' card, lol. Not to mention, in order to compare the removing of a wax stain on a card, it would be more comparable to removing a stain from a dress, which you can have done at any one-hour martinizing place and is widely accepted I would imagine. Whereas I could not sell a dress that was once a size 5 dress (I have no idea what dress sizes are) as a size 5 dress if I had it altered into a size 4 dress.