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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I set-up at hundreds of shows in the 80's and into the early 90's, and truly vintage NM to Gem Mint cards, were very, very few...and far between...and most of those were also trimmed or flattened out in brick like lucite holders to make them look better then they actually were.
Even cards I pulled right out of packs, I had a hard time, in good conscience, calling them MINT. I'd always just call them NM to be on the safe side.
That they started to become more common, when these huge price fluctuations began to develop between mid-graded stuff and high graded stuff, has proven to be not such a coincidence I guess.
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This was my experience also. Remember when American Beauty T206s stuck out like sore thumbs because they were so much narrower?
I just do not buy the idea that these cards were found in the wild in superb condition.