Is this Babe Ruth an original or reprint
SlavinHotStove
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If it's a reprint (which is what I'm thinking) what card company and what year/set was it inserted in?? Visually it is exactly the same as the 1949 Leaf cards I viewed online. In general, sanctioned reprints although replicating the original card, still have the current copy right jargon and date in small print. Thanks in advance and yes I looked through Beckett's online data base to find out what modern set included this as an insert and came up with nothing.
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Hah.... I don't really know old vintage, but I'm going to guess that based on past posts, because the wear on the back of cards is pure white, and not in the form of the non-wear back color, the back card stock color is ink and not card stock, thus a reprint. And it wouldn't be a legit reprint part of a modern set (which would never happen cause of the odd card size), because if it was, it would say reprint or something to make it obvious it is not the original.
One of the easiest tells a card is a fake is when you see rounded corners that were created to give the illusion of age and wear and then you look at the edges and there is no wear at all.