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Posted By: boxingcardman

as the scanner bed. I scan all the uncut strips and sheets I get, to preserve the information that might be gleaned from them. However, once a strip is scanned, there's no research-related reason to keep it together.

Strips are not analogous to uncut strips or sheets of T or R cards. Strip cards are the final products that were meant to be cut apart into cards. If someone buys a strip and wants to cut it into cards, he's just doing what the kiddies were supposed to do 80 years ago. Uncut factory sheets are a different matter. They are rare intermediate pieces of card manufacturing, not the end products, which is why none of the third party graders knowingly slab cards cut from factory sheets.

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