Rough cuts and grading standards

[Oscar_Stanage]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

False information is like COVID-19; it spreads everywhere and spreads quickly!

I've spoken to a few guys who worked at the O-Pee-Chee plant in London back in the day, and again, there was no wire. They had different machines in there that were made around the 1950s. Some of the machines cut two strips of cards at a time and one machine cut one strip at a time. The machine that was cutting one strip at a time produced the cleanest cuts.

lol, to be honest I never even knew what 'wire cut' meant. any insights on the 'first print' nonsense?

[Jim F]

OPC did not use wires and that Gretzky is a 5 because it has corner wear. That corner wear has nothing to do with the rough cut

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

lol, to be honest I never even knew what 'wire cut' meant. any insights on the 'first print' nonsense?

According to a former employee I spoke with, O-Pee-Chee was not doing first, second, third, etc. print runs back when the Gretzky rookie was manufactured. Additional runs were only required when there was a huge demand for more product, and this did not start happening until the late 1980s.

[Leon]

I hadn't read this thread until now and thought it was talking about pre-war cards.

So back to pre war. I guess cards that had coupons (although a D382 coupon hasn't been seen, I don't believe) could be considered rough cut? Or maybe rough tear, in most cases. This one might have been cut.

[Oscar_Stanage]

Originally Posted by Leon

I hadn't read this thread until now and thought it was talking about pre-war cards.

So back to pre war. I guess cards that had coupons (although a D382 coupon hasn't been seen, I don't believe) could be considered rough cut? Or maybe rough tear, in most cases. This one might have been cut.

not sure if this illustrates rough cut, but certainly how the writing blurbs have changed over the years. "A big fellow who throws...."