Post-National surprise

[Jantz]

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Some good questions have been asked. I think maybe I should have posted a back scan in my initial post.

Why do I think this card was cut this way at the factory and not post-factory? I guess my thought process is this. Card doctors/trimming artists would make use of every resource possible to make money. Obviously Carrigan is not a high profile player and wouldn't bring a lot of money, especially with a common back, until you consider how grading has changed this hobby. A T206 of Carrigan graded a 7 or higher would bring enough money to catch a card doctor's attention.

Other factors are the size of the card and the crease. Trimming would reduce any card's size. This card is correct in width by T206 standards and the length is long or oversized. If this T206 had a American Beauty back then I could see why the left border would be trimmed so close to the red background, but its a Piedmont. So why would anyone hack that much of the border off.

As far as the crease, I can only assume card doctors wouldn't waste their time on a creased card. Imagine if the 5-card T206 strip with Wagner didn't have any creases in it. That strip would have probably been chopped up years ago.

Clayton - Good point my friend! The REA scans don't show the back of the card well enough though. If you look at the back scan I posted, there is part of another back showing on the upper left side.


Jantz