Ummmmm…..👀 Questionable to say the least.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by puckpaul

I dont know if this does any good, but i looked at the t206s in Heritage’s latest showcase auction, and they all look just too good. Near perfect sides and corners. So many of them. I find it hard to believe.but they got “graded”.

I stayed away from these high graded prewar cards for years (to my detriment!), thinking the hobby would reject them at some point. That has been very wrong. What can you do? They sure look nice……

And very few will notice, and even fewer will care. Whatever may be wrong, is sanitized by the flip. This is the hobby we live in, ruled by card doctors and their facilitators.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

And very few will notice, and even fewer will care. Whatever may be wrong, is sanitized by the flip. This is the hobby we live in, ruled by card doctors and their facilitators.

Sad but true

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

And very few will notice, and even fewer will care. Whatever may be wrong, is sanitized by the flip. This is the hobby we live in, ruled by card doctors and their facilitators.

That's a great way to put it - "sanitized by the flip". Unfortunately it's also legitimized by the flip, but I like the word "sanitized" much better.

When I see T206 cards in HIGH grade, I always look to see if they meet the standard size requirement. I usually see them slightly more narrow or shorter. I've seen very few high grade T206 that are oversized. I'm sure most people have noticed that, also. One of these days I'm going to find the auction catalog that had one of the first collections with the name in the flip and they were all T206. If you saw some of the cards you'd shake your head because you KNOW they were trimmed.

I know the argument/debate - the sizes of the cards varied but I've seen a few rows of over a couple hundred T206 cards (raw) and the sizes varied very little for those groupings. That's why I have a difficult time buying into that debate.

Also, when I was going to school, I worked in a print shop (yeah, a long time ago) and I remember the guy that was running the show made sure that our cuts were right on, every time. I saw them waste a batch of stuff that was printed because I was about 1/8" off on the cut. The guy looked at me and said let's do better next time. Luckily, it was a small batch, but lesson learned and I understood that good print shops took pride in their work.