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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Michael, I have handled a few baseball cards in my time and several hundred in the W575-1 & E121 family, I can tell a trimmed card from the series when I see it. The statement that W575-1A's are "NEVER" hand-cut was probably a little extreme on my part but the vast majority (95% plus) I have handled have been cut similar to that of the E121 set, which does have a large amount of factory cut size variance. The cards pictured above are not trimmed and are not "hand cut" regardless of whether you would like them to be or not. I don't need you to give the cards your blessing by saying they are not hand cut, I am certainly capable of doing that myself.

I have no problem with you or anything like that, you can try to sell your card for what you want, and you certainly have my blessing to do so. Your card very well might be from the Koester's bread set or a set produced by a candy company (as that is how I (and many others) have theorized that W575-1A's were distributed, due to the factory cuts and the occasional caramel staining (a la E121)).

-Rhett