Strip cards - your opinion, please.

[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.

[Exhibitman]

Well, heck, if you have them uncut, leave them be. I'm not cutting this one:

[gunboat82]

Originally Posted by 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.

I'm on Team No-Cut, even though strips like this might sell for more chopped into singles. The "Altered" designation likely pertains to a microtear that only affects the Vance, but the "AA" alone is enough to turn off a subset of collectors and keep the value down.

[nineunder71]

Great Cards Everyone, here’s two more, not fifty more, hehe

[nat]

I've got 4/5ths of a strip.

As for the OP's cards: I doubt that any of those will get above an A. The graders want the dashed lines to be visible all the way along the edge of the card (or, at least, those edges on which there were dashed lines to begin with).