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Originally posted by btlfannz:
I have often watched uncut sheets go by on the 'bay but have never been tempted. What do you actually DO with them? I mean displaying them must be a nightmare! Framing them for display requires a house the size of an aircraft hanger.

For some of the rarer sets (that I need and don't have) there is a temptation to buy an uncut sheet and get a good printer to guillotine them into a set (or does the very thought of that bring tears to your eyes?)

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Originally posted by btlfannz:
For some of the rarer sets (that I need and don't have) there is a temptation to buy an uncut sheet and get a good printer to guillotine them into a set (or does the very thought of that bring tears to your eyes?)

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Originally posted by TC00:

The seller had said it would be shipped folded/rolled (Like a poster) but that it should be unwrapped immediatly upon arrival and laid out flat for a while to minimise any warping.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by btlfannz:
For some of the rarer sets (that I need and don't have) there is a temptation to buy an uncut sheet and get a good printer to guillotine them into a set (or does the very thought of that bring tears to your eyes?)

I've heard of that being done with sportscards many years ago, nothing recent and not with non-sport sets. Don't know how much someone might gain with the cards over the cost of the sheet and cutting. A sharp eye might be able to tell the difference, paper type, cut, whatever.

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Originally posted by Chrisahend:

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Originally posted by Raven:

I've heard of that being done with sportscards many years ago, nothing recent and not with non-sport sets. Don't know how much someone might gain with the cards over the cost of the sheet and cutting. A sharp eye might be able to tell the difference, paper type, cut, whatever.

I've bought a lot of blank front misprints over the last few years, mostly sports cards, and many of them appear to have been cut down from sheets after release.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Chrisahend:

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Originally posted by Raven:

I've heard of that being done with sportscards many years ago, nothing recent and not with non-sport sets. Don't know how much someone might gain with the cards over the cost of the sheet and cutting. A sharp eye might be able to tell the difference, paper type, cut, whatever.

I've bought a lot of blank front misprints over the last few years, mostly sports cards, and many of them appear to have been cut down from sheets after release.

I think that is something of a different nature. Years ago cards were produced with old fashioned printing presses and printing plates and there were a lot of errors in the process. Some of these errors, like blank backs or fronts, or missing colors, or missing names, got accepted in the hobby as variants and were assigned their own prices.

Now honestly I never understood the logic of this, because clearly these were damaged cards with improper quality control, that somehow got released. If anything they should have been sold at a discount and not afforded the premiums that many had.

But there were collectors who wanted blank front or blank back cards. If you bought blank front cards because you were told they were misprints, and then found out that they were from a cut up sheet, I would call that a misrepresentation (or even a fraud if you paid a lot) because they are not the true misprints that came out of the printing process missing the other side.