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DavidPete, I agree with much of what you say. Today's problems with deceptive trimming is due to the hobby's over financial emphasis placed on Mint cards.
On a Larry Firsch note that has nothing to due with grading: I grew up in Wisconsin about 60 miles away from Stevens Point where Fricsh is. When I was about ten, my dad and I stopped by a small McDonalds just out of Stevens Point. The walls of the McDonalds were totaly decorated by Frisch with rare memorablia (everything behind glass)-- including important jerseys, cards, etc etc. I was a collector of Topps cards (via my town's local dime store), so I had a resonable appreceation of the stuff ... Also, about the same time, I saved up and bought my very first old card, from the Frisch catalog-- a 1933 Goudey Jack Quinn. For the printed price, they would randomly pick out a common Goudey in I beleive Ex condition. I still have the card.