The term full bleed is used to describe a baseball card with an image that goes all the way to the edge of the card. The card does not have a defined border due to the image “bleeding” over the edge of the card.
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The E101 vintage cards, as designated in the American Card Catalog, are an “anonymous” set of cards released circa 1909. This particular card features the famed Pittsburgh shortstop, and maybe even more famous baseball card icon, Honus Wagner, in a batting stance.
A card which is referred to as being in excellent condition (sometimes abbreviated as EX), is considered to be in an at or above average condition with respect to the card’s condition at time of release.
An excellent condition card would receive a grade of 5 from PSA, or a 60 from SGC.
Doctoring of a baseball card refers to the, some would say nefarious, process of altering a damaged or poor condition card to make it appear as if it was in a better original condition. Some examples of doctoring a card include trimming, coloring or flattening.
This T3 Turkey Red cabinet card features third baseman Art Devlin of the New York Giants. Devlin was a prolific base swiper, leading the National League in that category for the year 1905.
This particular card is number 10 in the Turkey Red set. If you want to learn more about the T3 Turkey Red set there is one site to visit and here it is.
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