What is a card?

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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

Hi. This is Roy of LibertyForAll and MediumRareCollectibles and other Square-Meal-Trader names. I agree with Scott, with a few additions:

1. A card can certainly have the perforations on the edges. I have several AAA-graded cards with perforated edges. They came right out of packages of Charmin. I call them my "Whipple Collection".

2. Anything which can be cut out of a bona-fide Encyclopedia, Magazine, Newspaper, TV Guide, Billboard, Restaurant Menu, Horse Racing Guide, Sears Catalog, Phone Book, or Junk Mail Advertisement is also considered a card! Photocopies can only be considered under special circumstances.

3. Anything else which highly reputable and accurate graders, such as AAA and PRO, decide to be worthy of slabing shall also be considered a card. (Note that eBay allows them to be sold under the CARD category, and that is virtually a "final word" on the topic).

4. Anything I make in my garage in Hawaii is a card as long as it is made of paper, cardboard, toilet tissue (or kleenex), chip-board or plastic. This includes recycled paper and plastic products, and assumes that AAA will grade it (no problem there).

5. Anything my Aunt Phyllis finds in my dead Uncle Bob's attic, dresser, hat-box, his best sunday suit, or in the glove-box of his old Model-T shall be considered a card and unquestionably authentic.

If you have any questions about what I've listed here, or about anything else about cards and you want to talk to an authority, give me a call. My number is listed on AAA-Grading's site.

God Bless and Liberty For All!

-roy