Mystery 1978 Carlton

[Natswin2019]

Originally Posted by Steve D

"Sheet cut" basically means a card that was specifically cut from a sheet, by the collector or dealer. For example:

A collector or dealer buys an uncut sheet of say, 1979 Topps baseball, that contains the Ozzie Smith RC. The Ozzie RC is notorious for centering problems. The collector/dealer knows this, so he bought the full 132-card sheet specifically to try to get a perfectly centered Ozzie RC. He takes it to a professional printer/paper cutter, and has them cut the Ozzie out of the sheet, hoping for that elusive perfect centering.

This is completely different from the normal sheets of cards that Topps (or any other card company) prints, cuts, and puts into packs.

Ah I see, that makes sense. So in theory it should be pretty easy to spot that someone did this and that a TPG service should catch this? That all makes sense. Thanks for the info!

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Natswin2019

Ah I see, that makes sense. So in theory it should be pretty easy to spot that someone did this and that a TPG service should catch this? That all makes sense. Thanks for the info!

If done properly, I would assume this would be hard to catch. That would include cutting the card to the correct size and to use the same technique that the card company uses to cut the card, ie - die cut, roller blade, straight blade cut, etc. I guess it depends on how hard the grader looks at the edges and how close the measurements are.

[Phil68]

That Carlton is beautiful regardless. Sheet cut cards don't bother me much. I'd prefer a card be from packaging consistent with the year of issue, but the card is authentic.
I like how PSA grades the card and adds "Hand" or "Sheet" Cut

[Crossfire]

Originally Posted by Phil68

That Carlton is beautiful regardless. Sheet cut cards don't bother me much. I'd prefer a card be from packaging consistent with the year of issue, but the card is authentic.
I like how PSA grades the card and adds "Hand" or "Sheet" Cut

I'm pretty sure that PSA only does this for commonly sheet cut cards such as Hostess, Nestle and Post cereal. I would think a normal Topps would be returned that it did meet minimum size requirements.