Importance of card registraion

[abrahamrudy]

Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

Great Topic!

do you happen to have a scan of the mantle? $60 seems like a great price imo,
and id like to see how off it is.

Here's the pic from the ebay auction. I have the card and, in my opinion, the surface looks a bit cleaner than it does in that pic, but if you notice the corners, that'll explain the price. But you can get a glimpse of the registration from the name, where a bit of the blue ink covers the white. Also, his left eyebrow looks like a blue unibrow.

[ThoseBackPages]

i certainly see what your saying looking at his nameplate.

Slightly off topic a bit, a thing that REALLY irks me are,
and im not sure this is the right term, but when a card is
"diamond cut". This is a huge issue with the '75 set.

this is an eBay listing that i would have hit the BIN on,
if not for the diamond cut



i know that the card in the slab is tilted, but so is the cut of the card iunfortunately

[abrahamrudy]

I hear what you're saying. I have a beautiful 52 topps Jerry Coleman with the same issue. The card is pristine, except that when you look at it, you feel like something's off. It took me a while before I actually realized what it was.