What should I do with this card?

[FrankWakefield]

OPTIONS: (a non-exhaustive list)

1- Keep the card as an object lesson on why one should forgo graded cards; and from now on don't collect graded cards.

2- Send the thing back and ask for a refund if you're unhappy with it; then refrain from buying ungraded cards.

3- Keep the card and be unhappy with it; let it serve as a perpetual reminder to you to never, ever again buy an ungraded card, because you don't care for ungraded cards.



The card has a non-factory, uneven cut. I can't imagine that it is printer's scrap, that's just wishful thinking.


If it was mine, I'd think I paid too much for it, and that it is just fine as it is... paying to have it graded would be overspending some more, and a waste of money. I could well see what it is without it being in a slab, as can you. I don't see back up there in the prior posts where someone says they have no clue as to what it is, but if it were slabbed then they'd know.

[t206blogcom]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

I can't imagine that it is printer's scrap, that's just wishful thinking.

+1

[glynparson]

seem to be hand cut. i know i had a number a few years ago when you really got no to very little premium and all seemed to be hand cut a long time ago.

[steve B]

I'd keep it as-is. I wouldn't bother with slabbing, unless they would slab as missing color or wrong color. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I definetly wouldn't trim it more to even out the handcut edge. That edge is part of its appeal to an error collector.

Steve B

[Bridwell]

I don't see why some feel it is a missing colors card. Look at this one for $25 on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-T206...#ht_553wt_1185

It looks similar to yours, except a little brighter.

[drumback]

There is actually a big difference between the two. The one you refer to is definitely blue. Mine is definitely gray, and a much darker gray than it appears to be in my scan. If you look at it in the completed listings on ebay, that scan is a much better representation of how dark the sky really is. And, I never said it was missing color in the first place. I simply stated that it was a color variation, and asked for opinions on how this particular variation might have happened.