T206 trimmed or not?

[mrdacheek]

Little help here fellas. Does this card look trimmed to you? Does to me.

[Bpm0014]

Yes. Especially top right. However, so hard to tell from scans.

[mrdacheek]

Yeah I couldn't tell so much either. It's tougher on this one because it's mis-centered as well. But you see that top right corner? It looks just like that in 'real-life' and thats a little piece of card shaving sticking up not something in the scan.

[Luke]

Very tough to tell. The bottom looks a little concave to me, but I can't tell. I'd bid or offer an amount based on it being trimmed. It's a nice card regardless.

[yankees23]

I presume any tobacco card with sharp corners is trimmed...graded or not. After the PSA Wagner incident I now seek rounded corners.

[Luke]

Originally Posted by yankees23

I presume any tobacco card with sharp corners is trimmed...graded or not. After the PSA Wagner incident I now seek rounded corners.

This is a good way to operate in my opinion. I would never pay "5" money for a raw t206 that looks like a "5" unless I knew and trusted the seller and he had had it his collection for a long time.

[Econteachert205]

Can't message the seller and ask for a measurement?

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by LukeLyon

Very tough to tell. The bottom looks a little concave to me, but I can't tell. I'd bid or offer an amount based on it being trimmed. It's a nice card regardless.

The bottom looks off to me as well. Good use of the word concave.

[steve B]

Can you see it in person? It's impossible to tell much of anything from those small scans.

I've bought a few raw T206s with nice corners. A couple came back undersize, and one trimmed, but most have done well.

In person what you're looking for is a slight rounding of the edge on the front and a bit of a ridge on the back. That's from the cutter blade being pushed through the stack. Similar to a die cut edge. For a very visible example of the sort of edge have a look at most jigsaw puzzles (Newer mass produced ones, the high quality ones or the old wood ones are sometimes sawn even today)

There should be a very tiny bit of chipping along all the edges on the back. Not freshly torn or spots that look pulled.
And an edge that's very sharp top and bottom with no rounding or chipping is almost certainly trimmed.
(It's possible with a freshly sharpened blade, but that almost never would have been the case. The blades on a cutter might only need sharpening once every year or two. )

Steve B

[freakhappy]

I vote no, but it's impossible to know for sure over the 'puter.