1908 Detroit Free Press trimmed?

[BeanTown]

Old Cardboard and PSA even have different sizes for the cards. Were these hand collated? That would explain the Jumbo size Cobb we have seen and then the more normal size ones.

I won a group of Brush postcards and noticed all different sizes from oversized to smaller with no evidence of trimming whatsoever. They were commons to.

I can't see to many people cutting/trimming postcards back in the day to put in scrap books and I don't think the card doctors and trimmers from the 70s and 80s would want to work on them since they were not valuable and were considered a nitche.

Hopefully there are some postcards experts on here that might know how they were made at the factory.

[Baseball Rarities]

Here is a better scan of the uncut sheet. I do not remember where I stole the scan from, so sorry for not giving proper credit.

The top edge is definitely hand cut. The other three edges look to be fairly straight.

[insidethewrapper]

If someone with tech skills could load that McIntyre photo to the Old Cardboard Site it would be appreciated. They have the wrong photo on their now. Thanks

[orly57]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Here is a better scan of the uncut sheet. I do not remember where I stole the scan from, so sorry for not giving proper credit.

The top edge is definitely hand cut. The other three edges look to be fairly straight.

It appears to me that all of the top 4 cards would HAVE to be cut "short" at the bottom or else the top borders of the second-row cards would be way short. The bottom row has all that extra white bottom-border that you see on Jeff's Cobb. If Cobb was on the bottom row of his sheet, then that explains Jeff's but doesn't explain mine (or the "short" Rossman) since you (Kevin) say that all sheets have the same layout. Maybe they started hand-cutting the bottom row so they would be uniform?