1949 Bowman rough edges?

[polakoff]

I acquired a small but solid lot of 1949 Bowmans, mixture of stars and commons. I'm not super familiar with the issue as I'm usually a Topps guy.

I've noticed that several of the cards (both stars and commons) have one or two "rough edges" almost similar to what is common on O-Pee-Chee. The cards measure full and line up perfectly with the cards in the lot that do NOT have rough edges. I was looking through some images and noticed some high grade cards appear to have this issue:

a PSA 7 Hodges with a jagged left edge: http://www.milehighcardco.com/ItemIm...3419a_med.jpeg

a PSA 10 Campy with a jagged right edge: https://images.psacard.com/s3/cu-psa...oundcorners=10

I'm assuming jagged edges are something that exists in this set? Can anyone explain (a) if that's the case and (b) if so, why?

Worried I bought some trimmed stuff but as I mentioned, they measure full, so my other thought was maybe sheet cut, until seeing slabbed cards with similar edges.

[polakoff]

Here’s a Lowrey from the lot with jagged left and right edges


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[polakoff]

Here’s a Rizzuto, which is the card that worried me. 3 edges are jagged with the bottom being the only unaffected one. With the Knick on the bottom edge, I was concerned it was trimmed.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Smanzari]

This is common with these issues - IIRC, it has to do with how they were cut with a piano-type wire (I could also be remembering COMPLETELY wrong)

[steve B]

A dull blade will do that too.

[sickmantz]

Originally Posted by polakoff

Worried I bought some trimmed stuff but as I mentioned, they measure full, so my other thought was maybe sheet cut, until seeing slabbed cards with similar edges.

I've actually been told that the rough edges show it hasn't been trimmed.