F/S 1969 Topps #567 Pirates Rookie Stars -Tough No Outline on Title variation

[JollyElm]

Want to point out a couple of things.
In these days of card grading, just be careful, as the card appears to be miscut and is not a true rectangle. I drew a red box around the OP's pic to illustrate what jumps out at me. While the left/right sides seem pretty straight and parallel to each other, the top right side (especially) looks like it was clipped (starting above "RO" and slanting downward to the right). The bottom, although angled, seems to be straighter?? The card itself is obviously trapezoidal, and the lightness/fading could indicate it may have spent time in the sun?? Dunno. Measure it out and/or put it on top of a newer card you know to be the correct size, and see how it fits, determine how closely the dimensions match. Perhaps it's more or less an optical illusion?? Hard to say. Just my $.02...

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Here's one of mine (look at how much darker the colors are) that I never got graded due to a similar, but much more obvious, miscutting (is that even a word?) problem on the top right, starting in the area above the "S"...

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