Strip cards - your opinion, please.

[nineunder71]

I’m just a traditionalist, I like the old vintage cards as they are, even in poor shape. Scissors aren’t part of my collecting, but thats just me.. and i’m sure I own plenty of cards that others have chopped away at, haha

I guess its the cutting of the uncut strips into individual cards that really bothers me the most.. IMO, Many folks just don’t understand how much more obscure, difficult, and flat out neat those uncut strips are….. then they cut the Ruth out for the hopes of a super high grade

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

Interesting take. Why? SGC notes that these cards were hand cut so wouldn’t cleaning up a hand cut be the same in your opinion?

[nineunder71]

To each their own, I guess

I not only bought this guy, but I taped it back together and sent it for grading (at the time, it was the only graded example, and I ‘needed’ it for my SGC slabbed set)

I still like it today, so…

[JLange]

I bought a strip card with irregular shape and thought I could improve it for my collection. Big mistake. It looks newly trimmed which is exactly what it is, and now it’s also over trimmed. I wish I would have left it alone.

[brianp-beme]

Why trim when you can display an unsightly bulge?

Brian

[Leon]

I am in the camp of not evening the cards up. I almost never take paper away from a strip card. I prefer truly original but to each their own. There is no right or wrong answer.

Just the way they came.....

[ullmandds]

Personally, I believe and leaving my strip cards as I found them. It's fun to imagine how these were distributed. Some people most likely just tore them off while others took a scissor and were more meticulous.

I also think that the grading on these has been pretty ridiculous over the years. There are numerous examples of cards with an a that could have a number, and vice versa there seems to be not much rhyme or reason.

other than that, I only have grown to love strip cards, but only the ones that resemble the players and have added Many Ruths to my stable.

[Shankweather]

This is my preferred method for presenting my W515 Grover Alexander, uncut: