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boxingcardmando you really need it to say "hand cut" on the slab? That's like labeling every Topps card slab "machine cut."
As far as I'm concerned, and evidently as far as SGC is concerned, a card that was meant to be cut from a strip is to be graded just like any other card when used as intended, just like a Zeenut or Red Man with the coupon removed. I don't see why having the card in the intended end format of the product is a problem. It seems to me that all we are talking about is timing: it's OK if the card was cut out in 1929 by a kid but not OK if it was cut today? That makes no sense. And when the sheet or strip looks bad as-is, all the more reason to cut it down and get a few nice cards from the wreckage. My W565 sheet had a big chunk off the bottom and looked bad because of it but most of the cards on the sheet looked nice. I far prefer the sheet cut apart with the damaged cards gone than left in a sheet where my eye gravitates right to the gash and missing chunk.
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