First-ever SGC 10 Wilt Chamberlain Rookie Graded

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09-08-2024, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Hmmm. I get how sloppy quality control would result in size issues or angled cuts. Not sure I can visualize how factory sloppiness would produce a bat ear, the way trimming can of course. Surely you can post some examples of this common phenomenon?

I don't have scans of the bad ones, but even in my heavily cherry-picked set I have a few commons with bat ear cuts or upward sloping cuts. Here are a handful of them. And again, these are the best of the best copies I've found over the years. You could browse ebay right now and easily find numerous copies with slanted bat-ear cuts.

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	1961 Fleer 40 - Frank Selvy 1a.jpg (198.7 KB, 216 views)
	1961 Fleer 47 - Wilt Chamberlain IA 1a.jpg (191.8 KB, 220 views)
	1961 Fleer 64 - Gene Shue IA 3a.jpg (190.8 KB, 215 views)

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Last edited by Snowman; 09-08-2024 at 01:27 AM.

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