Any Sports Illustrated poster experts out there?

[Mark70Z]

Look like they are cut to me, but I'm not an expert by any means. I know a little about the '68's, but not much after those... They really look cool either way.

[mrmopar]

By the way, I just picked some random photos where I could find both versions on ebay. I did win a lot of posters a few years back and some of them were non-bordered, but they are packed away somewhere. I don't remember/think they appeared cut to me at the time I got them though.

[Mark70Z]

Are they different sizes? I would think that the regular issue SI posters would be the normal 24"x 36".

[Bigdaddy]

I too had a bunch of these as a kid, practically plastered my whole bedroom walls with them.

My guess is that the borderless ones are trimmed to remove the pin holes, tape marks, etc.

[mrmopar]

These are not my posters, I just took the images from google for examples. I'd have to dig through my posters to see if I still have any of the borderless ones and see how they size up. Right now I am trying to flatten out all of the posters I have, so they are all stacked up with items on top to flatten them, so they are inaccessible right now.

I did receive an email from someone who claimed to have interviewed a factory worker who said a certain retailer ordered their posters this way with the factory "trim job". No specifics were offered as to who the retailer was or anything further, but it was interesting to read.