Size inconsistencies of 1960 Fleer Baseball Greats

[Daniel]

Hi,
I am new to the forum and have a question regarding the sizing of 1960 Fleer Baseball Greats.

I recently won 14 of them in eBay auctions (from a seller with a very good reputation that I have purchased from before). The size of the cards are inconsistent (height, not width) when compared to a standard Topps card. Two of the cards are the exact height of a Topps card but the rest are all shorter and not uniform with each other. The shortest one is 2mm smaller than a Topps card.

The cards are all HOFers but because they only sell for a few dollars each, I wouldn't think anyone would trim them.

Can anyone let me know if this is normal for 1960 Fleer Baseball Greats?
Thanks - Daniel

[Daniel]

Anyone able to help a newbie out on this??

[ALR-bishop]

I have the set. I collect all my sets in ungraded form for display purposes. I put this particular set together years ago before grading and condition were as central to the hobby as now. But in checking my cards I do not notice the type of size differences you mention.

[Griffins]

Not sure if this helps, but I've got #80 (Grove/Martin) that is considerably longer than the standard size. Given that all the #80's may or may not have been distributed in packs I don't know if that is a good measure for the issue.
The rest of my set is pretty consistant in size.

[ALR-bishop]

Anthony---I have one of those as well and mine was obviously hand cut and is an odd size, but I always assumed if was a left over print defect ( wrong back of non issued card on the front of one of 3 issued cards) that got into the hobby other than in packs. Have you heard that some may have shown up in packs ?

[Daniel]

Thank you for the replies. I would possibly think the cards are trimmed except they are worth so little. I think I'll send the seller a message and hear what he says aboout it.