T205 sizes and trimming

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Posted By: Brian Hodes

Kyle-
Your cards look ok to me -- I honestly have trouble believing that worn T205s that do not seem to have suspicious cuts are trimmed. If I can have oversized T205s (and I do) it seems to me that there might be legit undersized T205s out there to. Remember these cards were not originally cut by laser beams or anything nor were they for sale -- they were just pictures cards that were given as a friendly extra with Tobacco. I don't think anyone back in 1911 was taking particular care to make sure that these little freebies all had exactly the same measurements. Additionally, the technology just wasn't up to the task of cutting them perfectly equally 90+ years ago.

Nonetheless we live in a graded card world and I think you would have trouble getting them graded -- at least by PSA or SGC (I think the same would probably hold for Beckett's outfit and the new former PSA graders' company).