A Fun Message Board Topic: Miscut Cards

November 8th, 2009  |  Published in Interesting eBay Auctions, Interesting Message Board Threads  |  2 Comments

There’s a fun thread developing on the Collectors Universe message boards: collectors there are posting their worst miscut cards. Here’s my entry, a 1963 Topps Tom Bettis with -5/105 centering. It’s nowhere near as bad as the other cards posted, though. Check out the severely miscut ones.

Just out of curiosity, I did a little search for “miscut” on eBay. Most of the results are ordinary miscuts like my Bettis card, but at the moment there’s a half-and-half baseball card and a hockey card that shows parts of four cards. Here are the searches: baseball, hockey, football.

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  1. Jesse says:

    November 8th, 2009 at 9:58 PM (#)

    I have a miscut so out of control it should be valuable. It’s from the 1972 Topps football. You have 25% of one player’s body and 75% of another players body. I guess quality control was out sick that day at the Topps plant.

  2. nearmint says:

    November 9th, 2009 at 5:36 AM (#)

    Hi Jesse, thanks for checking in. I’ve never shopped for badly miscut cards, but I’d guess that they are a little more valuable than cards that are merely off-center. I imagine some collectors would pay a bit for the novelty–but only a bit.

    If you have a scan of your card online, you’re welcome to post a link to it here.