Trimming experts: your time to shine. Opinion?

[cardsagain74]

Just got this and it measures a little short L/R of my '56 ex-mt commons. It's also the same size as my raw '56 Jackie Robinson of similar condition.

So if they were both trimmed, it was done basically the exact same way by different people. Naturally that doesn't seem to make sense, but the fact that both of them are a shade smaller L/R than any similar commons has me wondering.

Opinions on possible evidence of trimming here?

[Stampsfan]

I can tell you in the late 60’s and early 70’s, I pulled cards from packs and they were sometimes different sizes in the same packs. I remember pulling the same card from different packs and they were slightly different sizes too. Still have some.
I would imagine the 50’s were the same.

[swarmee]

Looks pretty natural to me. Biggest reasons for trimming cards are to eliminate edge/corner wear or to improve centering. Doesn't look like trimming would notably improve the centering, and the centering holds back the technical grade enough to not make trimming for condition as useful.

Some cards are just factory cut short based on the location on the sheet (closer to edges).

[cardsagain74]

Thanks guys.

Bob, I've seen that happen too, especially with '67 high numbers.

John, I thought it looked fine as well. But when half a dozen commons all measure longer than your two HOFers, that always causes a double-take!

The Jackie R. is going off to PSA soon, so that one will be answered for certain soon enough. Well, unless they are still giving too many number grades to short cards there

[Leon]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

Thanks guys.

Bob, I've seen that happen too, especially with '67 high numbers.

John, I thought it looked fine as well. But when half a dozen commons all measure longer than your two HOFers, that always causes a double-take!

The Jackie R. is going off to PSA soon, so that one will be answered for certain soon enough. Well, unless they are still giving too many number grades to short cards there

It is their opinion, not certain.

[Jayhawke]

I can’t answer specifically about this card, but I have many ‘75’s that are short.

[JollyElm]

It may be a sort of 'only time will tell' scenario. If you continue to find other cards (hopefully non-stars) that match the short size, it may simply be a production anomaly. Unfortunately, having just two is too small a sample size. Maybe post the exact size your cards are and see if anyone here has matching shorties that also don't appear to have been trimmed??

[jbbama]

Don't know for sure, but I have seen a lot of cards like that in the 1956 set.