Trimming
There are a lot more T206 cards than other pre-war cards, so the volume of trimming will be higher. This is especially true when you consider that T206 cards were so often irregularly cut in the factory, which almost invites trimming. For this reason, a good trim is less detectable in T206. Combine this with the third party grading craze and you've got a pandemic. Card with fuzzy corners -- $50; same card with 4 sharp corners -- $1,000 or even much, much higher.
I should mention that a number of over-sized T206 cards were trimmed simply to get them to fit in collector sheets by old school collectors that did not put any value on trimmed vs. untrimmed.
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