Re-Cutting Hand Cut Cards

[Jaybird]

Originally Posted by botn

It makes plenty of sense to me why they can assign grades to hand cut cards--there is far more that impacts a grade than corners and edges. Just because it is hand cut it is still prone to creases, poor image quality, paper loss, etc that other non hand cut cards. The market has already show us what value they place on most hand cut issues. Besides if you look at a majority of high grade cards (and even way too many lower grade cards) in graded holders they are hand cut and the flips do not even say so!

I'm not a huge fan of grading so take this with a grain of salt...

The corners and edges must account for a percentage of the grade. What percentage? Typically we see cards with nothing more than corner wear and flawless fronts and backs receive 3s and 4s. The edges and corners are keeping it from receiving a higher grade. So, how do these recut cards receive a grade higher than 3 or 4? I don't get it.

They should either all grade authentic or no higher than 3 or 4 based on perfect non-creased fronts and backs.