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Originally Posted by Junior5487
Thanks for your opinion. Unfortunately I think I agree with you from the research I have done also. Sucks I’ve had it sitting somewhere for about 25 years and just got it out. So were these cards not originally hand cut then? I always thought they were.
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Original cards were factory cut, sorry to say! Cards that appear hand-cut today _should_ originate from 80s/90s replica sets printed on single sheets. At the time, I believe those printers wanted to make it clear they were reprints. Some of those were even printed in color to underscore that, since Fro-Joy's original cards always used white stock. Some who bought those sheets trimmed them later without disclosing their origin.
I've seen reprints from at least as far back as the 80s and perhaps even older versions are out there! They can look old indeed, circa 2024.