On Apr 16, 9:55*pm, "Lord Hawhaw" wrote:
"Frank Provasek" *wrote in message

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Normally a "trimmed" card is undersize...but this particular card seems to have
been cut with sissors from a full sheet many years ago. *(Thousands of uncut
sheets containing T206 were trashed *by the printer when Wagner demanded that
his card not be distributed with cigarettes, which he felt encouraged youth to
smoke simply to get his card. *At one time the margins were irregular and extra
wide, and Bill Mastro, about 30 years ago, seems to have cut it down to spec
and squared up the edges. *PSA graded it 8-NM and since the card was not
undersized, there was nothing that would indicate a trimming. *Is trimming to
make a card appear to be higher grade (hoping no one will notice the smaller
size or the tight margins)the same as trimming away extra paper? *It's still
the finest T206, and the current owner thinks the publicity will add $1/2
million to the value.
Like the 1804 dollars, which are back-dated fantasies, people still want this
finest known T206, *which if it were any other card, it would be worth very
little...as are almost all other cards that are hand cut from printer's
spoilage rather than distributed in cigarette or gum packages.

There you have it people, Frank endorses unethical behavior. Figures.
Glad to see you're back from Berdoo, Frank. How that TS prostitute thing working
out for you?

Nothing in my post endorses unethical behavior.