Off-centered cards you love anyway...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Don't even know why it's graded OC.

Back, probably. Used to be more of a concern to the graders.

[irv]

I have many off centered cards in my collection. Do I wish they were perfectly centered or close to it like my Faye Thornberry card? Of course I do, ($$$) but I am not disappointed at all knowing I own them.

Like others have said, OC cards are much more affordable but I do understand the reasons for those who purchase, or try to purchase, perfectly centered cards.

[steve B]

I'd guess most of my collection is off-centered. It just never mattered much to me.

Except for 1970 Topps, where for a while I was collecting them with and without what I think are guidelines between all rows. Those I have a mostly centered group, and another that's off center enough to show the lines.
Yes, I may be slightly "eccentric"

[mintacular]

A few survivors that I still like before I started going for centered cards......





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[HRBAKER]

So bad, even the flip id O/C!

[GasHouseGang]

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

Yes and I'd still pick it today over a duller perfectly centered copy with touched corners. To each their own.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

Exactly...

For my sets I go for or will upgrade in the following order -

1. Creases (NO CREASES)
2. Corners
3. Centering
4. Gloss

I do upgrade anything off center to the point the border is gone or barely there. But I'd take an OC with sharp corners and no creases all day long vs a card with soft corners and a wrinkle that is centered.

Some cards I've seen I just don't get where the grader can say OC...

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

So bad, even the flip id O/C!

LOL now that is ironic.

[jchcollins]

I will add this one. 67's are tough because the borders are smaller to begin with. Finding 67's truly dead-nuts centered, and also without tilt is quite the tall order. This card is fine with me because it was what a nicer looking card in a shop back in the 80's or early 90's would have looked like. It's far from dead-nuts centered, but is missing the tilt. Back then, "centering" was not a term used by teenage boys attempting to grade old cards. If a card was not "creased" or "beat to hell" in our vernacular, it was usually going to be pretty desirable.