Question about hand-cut cards and/or cut outs

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

Not wanting to stir things up, but why the opposition to grading handcut cards? Cards graded "A" can range in visual appeal from trash to pristine. Photos/scans don't always reveal to a buyer all that's there. A grade helps I think. Should we not grade Casey Stengle All Stars, Mecca Double Folders or any other issue that the distributor meant to be manipulated? Just want to here thoughts cause some seem rather passionate in their opposition to grading hand cuts

I don't have an opposition to grading hand cut cards I just want the transparency of what they really are on the label. They are handcut. To not put that on the flips puts these hand cut cards in the same class as manufacturer cut cards, which is not correct. People should know that an SGC96 W514 of Joe Jackson might have been on a full strip in 2012 and then cut to be what it is in the holder, last year, not in 1920-21.