Would you destroy a trimmed card?

[ILTBOC2]

The other night I was discussing the topic of trimmed pre-war cards with a friend of mine. Both of us agreed that their may have been a time in the last 60 - 100 years when this sort of thing was en vogue as their sure seem to be a lot of trimmed cards out there. Personally, I prefer original cards that are un-trimmed but I know there are many collectors who, for one reason or another, collect them. Our conversation then took an interesting turn...we started wondering what others thought of these cards and if there was anyone out there that knowingly destroyed cards like this in an effort to remove them from the hobby.

So, the question I present to you is what are your thoughts on trimmed cards and would you destroy them, say T206's or T205's that are abundant, if they somehow ended up in your collection? Say you purchased a collection of pre-war cards and some of them were trimmed...would you keep, sell, trade, or destroy the trimmed cards?

For me personally, I think I would try to re-sell them (with full disclosure of course)to a collector that was interested in, or didn't mind, such cards.

Interested in reading your opinions!

[ullmandds]

as much as i detest altered cards...it'd be quite foolish to destroy them?! like throwing $$$$ away?!?! i rid them from my collection by selling/trading them.

[obcbobd]

Absolutely not.

BTW, anyone have trimmed cards they don't like, send them to me and I promise not to release them back into the hobby

[AMBST95]

Although its trimmed, it's still a card. That'd be like destroying all cards with creases because you collect crease free cards. For a piece of cardboard to last 100 years +, why destroy it? There is still value in it. You said an abundant T206, but why should it be treated any different than any other card? One day, it may be the last remaining survivor. Would you destroy a 1/1 because some collector trimmed it 30 or 40 years ago? Just use full disclosure and sell if you don't want it. It's not a fake or reprint, it's just been trimmed to look nicer. No harm in that as long as there's transparency.

[scoobysnacksforyou]

no way would I ever destroy any original vintage card. That's just destroying a piece of history as far as i'm concerned. If all the trimmed, skinned, removed from scrapbook-type cards were taken out of the hobby, many folks would be priced out of owning many vintage turn of the century and prewar cards.

[conor912]

The number of altered prewar cards in the world will never go down....just up. If we destroy them, we are killing what we love.

[the 'stache]

No way. They might not "grade" well, but as has been mentioned before, they're pieces of history.