Diamond Cut Cards

[ocjack]

Originally Posted by Promethius88

Since I don't trim or alter cards, my question would be...why would someone trim a card into a diamond cut? I would think if you were altering it, you would want to make it look better.

Exactly. So when I send a card that measures perfectly except for the diamond cut, and the TPG returns it as trimmed - are they saying I don't know how to properly trim a card? (being facetious) I would think - by its very nature as a diamond-cut, eliminates its being trimmed.

So, the question - how do TPG's grade diamond-cuts and is there a max grade with qualifier?

Thanks to those that did respond.

[perezfan]

As per my #2 post in this thread.... they don't know.

I wasn't just lazily taking a jab at them, or glossing over your well thought out question. Seriously, you could probably ask 5 different graders, and get 5 different responses to this. Just look at all the different "professional" opinions on Irish Denny's beautiful E90-1 Walsh Card...

Why is it so important what they think, anyway? They are just self-appointed "experts". If you like the card (and it measures up), I would just enjoy it as raw. Some day in the not so distant future, people will just be laughing at today's slabs, anyway.

[cannonballsun]

I bought a card many years ago, when grading was just getting started. It was in one of those old telephone auctions. There were no pictures, but the auction company would accurately describe the card, and you would get the card exactly as described.
However, if a card was graded, they'd just give you the grade of the card, and that was it. I bought a 1969 Mickey Mantle White Letter Variation, PSA graded 5 EX. When I received it, I found it had a diamond cut. I was not at all pleased. There is no way in the world I would grade a card like that an EX 5.
That was the start of my not caring for grading companies.