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Rob D.Dan,
Forgetting for a moment the whole grading thing, you say "in the 1970s before people started trimming cards." Though I agree that hardly anyone from that era would have trimmed a card to improve the appearance of its condition, don't you agree that trimming cards for other non-nefarious reasons (sizing them to fit in an album, box, etc.) wasn't all that uncommon long before big money entered the hobby?
I know that a number of cards from various issues in Lionel Carter's collection were deemed trimmed, and I think most would agree that he likely didn't trim them and that some of them had been in his collection for many years before the grading frenzy hit.