Does anyone like badly miscut cards?

[avalanche2006]

I recently bought a lot of vintage baseball and football that had several crazy miscuts. I was wondering if they are considered low grade or sought out by certain people.

[mrmopar]

There are certainly collectors of just about anything you can think of. I'd suspect that aside from a small number of collectors who like those types of print/cutting errors in general (there are a few regular contributors on this site, I believe), most probably appeal more to specific player collectors. I, for one, will pick up oddities for Steve Garvey and will even pay a small premium for them if they are interesting enough. I don't go overboard though, so I prefer them as close to "normal" card market as possible or I often pass on them.

[mrmopar]

How's this for an example. I bought this one not that long ago from an ebay seller who seems to have an unlimited supply of odd cuts, oversized "proofs" and similar. I think I paid $1-2 for it. Much more than the regular single, which you might be able to find for a dime or quarter, but still cheap enough to appreciate the oddity.

There these is this king of garbage that I am still drawn to like a bad accident on the roadside. They are ugly, poorly executed, but yet I still buy them. Not quite sure why to be honest. A plain 3x5 card would have been so much nicer looking, although much more boring too.

[mrmopar]

Can't seem to get the 2nd scan to attach...

[bnorth]

Curt pretty much nailed it.

If you have any Wade Boggs, hit me up, the more off center the better.

[bgar3]

Agree with Curt also about specific player miscuts being of interest.
For me that is Ashburn. Here are 2 interesting ones because they include other hall of farmers and they would actually appear in a column on a 1956 sheet. The Ashburn/Mantle were together at one time.
Also, please feel free to pm me any Ashburn miscuts you might want to part with.

[Harliduck]

Wow, getting that Mantle and Ashburn together like that is insanely cool! Twins brought back together. Is there a story on those?

[Rich Klein]

When we used to see Matt Charlton here in DFW he loved those cards. I love them because they are interesting and if he ever comes back up, I've got a load of these for you Matt. But to me, anything like this has to be rarer than a basic card and in fields such as Coins or Stamps misprints like that they have significant value. Maybe not to "our generation" but I suspect fairly soon there will be a real market for those cards.

Rich

[bgar3]

John, no story I know of, I got it just like you see it. I hope nobody purposely cut them apart, I suspect they were just scraps someone kept after cutting, but I don’t know.

[1963Topps Set]

I love them and have quite a few.

[Exhibitman]

heck yes!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

When we used to see Matt Charlton here in DFW he loved those cards. I love them because they are interesting and if he ever comes back up, I've got a load of these for you Matt. But to me, anything like this has to be rarer than a basic card and in fields such as Coins or Stamps misprints like that they have significant value. Maybe not to "our generation" but I suspect fairly soon there will be a real market for those cards.

Rich

Matt is a great guy, done a couple trades with him that involved rare error cards.

I have been collecting errors of all kinds since the 80's. The prices fluctuate a lot. Sometimes they bring a lot of cash and sometimes you can't give them away.

[Eric72]

I also think severely miscut cards are pretty cool. If you've got a batch of Philadelphia Phillies and/or Flyers, at a slight premium, let me know.

[Kevvyg1026]

I don't collect miscuts, but I do like to see them. They can help identify what card was next to another, which is useful when attempting to determine the print patterns that Topps may have used. If anyone has high number miscuts for 1961 to 1968, please post pix!!!

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

I don't collect miscuts, but I do like to see them. They can help identify what card was next to another, which is useful when attempting to determine the print patterns that Topps may have used. If anyone has high number miscuts for 1961 to 1968, please post pix!!!

Exactly. I never cared for miscuts, wrong backs, or blank backs, but for the past week I have been looking for scans of late series 1963 Topps miscuts for information on trying to reconstruct the rows of cards on the original sheets. ETA: that's Mike de la Hoz beside the Stargell rookie.

[ALR-bishop]

Remind me what the little green arrow means

[Exhibitman]

Robin Hood was here?

[almostdone]

I got these off the BST years ago. Always thought they were a good miscut conversation piece.
Drew

[JollyElm]

Love stuff like that!!

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by almostdone

I got these off the BST years ago. Always thought they were a good miscut conversation piece.
Drew

Well that’s COOL!

Personally I like miscut Brooks Robinson cards as long they are playing day cards (1957 - 1978).