Strip cards - your opinion, please.

[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:

[steve B]

I prefer to not cut cards, but I can see it for handcut cards where the hand cut is both sloppy and leaves room for some improvement.

I don't see that any of the three from the original post would be improved. To me having a typical strip card with a single perfectly straight edge ending in damage would be worse than old rough edges all around.