is this REAL or a Reprint?

BigKidAtHeart · April 18, 2004 7:37AM

can you tell from looking?

BigKidAtHeart · April 18, 2004 7:39AM

here is a REAL one that is PSA graded....
can you compare the two and tell
of the top one is real or not?
~jeff

Mantlefan · April 18, 2004 7:42AM

Gee, it looks good to me.

Aknot · April 18, 2004 7:43AM

Fake? I do not know the cards at all but looking at the "marquee" it seems "skewed".
**EDIT** hell the upper one looks like a "3D Model".... sorry.... it does. It looks plastic.

cardboardjungle · April 18, 2004 8:11AM

It seems like the front & the back from the first post are not the same card. The back side scan is not as tall as the front side scan. (As if one was a modern size card, and the other a vintage size card.) Was that pic from an auction?

phreakydancin · April 18, 2004 9:59AM

cbj, i think that's a function of the scan, not the card. the holder is bigger on the front scan too.

from the fakes i've seen, you can usually tell by the font of *TOPPS BASEBALL* and the ball stitching on the back.

i'd guess it's real.

qualitycards · April 18, 2004 10:31AM

The PSA holder doesn't look kosher. There seems to be a frosted look around the perimiter. Plus the card inside it has too much of a dot matrix pattern. So I will say you cracked the Campy out of the holder and scanned it loose and put in a fake one inside the regular holder. Just a guess although its very hard to make determinations via scans...jay

Edited for spelling

Aknot · April 18, 2004 10:49AM

Hell I like mine better:

BigKidAtHeart · April 18, 2004 12:10PM

ok, First,
this was not a quiz or test,
I really am trying to figure out if the
FIRST card pictured in the intial post is real or not.

I included the Second, PSA graded one as a reference.

I do not own either of them... they are BOTH currently
for sale on Ebay.

I just wanted your thoughts on the Risk factor of buying
the Ungraded one...

(the graded one is already at nearly $600 so that one is not an option!)

~jeff

WinPitcher · April 18, 2004 12:16PM

bill7549 · April 18, 2004 1:02PM

I'm the high bidder on the actual graded one, so it better as heck be real!

bill7549 · April 18, 2004 1:06PM

My advice is to NEVER buy any high-end vintage cards unless they are in a PSA holder. People who sell ungraded high-end vintage might be for real, but more often than not, the cards they peddle are either reprints, or are altered in some way. The reasoning behind this is that if you have a high-end vintage, you will easily get double your money out of the card if it was graded.

That being said, the Campy that is ungraded, I would avoid. It's possible it is real, but also very possible that it is not. I cannot tell for sure from the scan.

bill7549 · April 18, 2004 1:09PM

Cripes, you scare me ANOT. Other than the fact that the card in the holder you have shown is in no way a 9, due to the corners and centering, you could just about pull this off on Ebay (and I'm sure some jerks have done this in the past). Nice job with replacing the Ex-MT 6 with a MT9

Aknot · April 18, 2004 8:46PM

<< <i>Cripes, you scare me ANOT. Other than the fact that the card in the holder you have shown is in no way a 9, due to the corners and centering, you could just about pull this off on Ebay (and I'm sure some jerks have done this in the past). Nice job with replacing the Ex-MT 6 with a MT9

>>

That is why I put the "TEST" across there. O yeah anyone with Photoshop or similar program can "clean" a card. That was done in less then 5 mins and that is to include loading the programand opening the file.

I might post a few other things that can be done to "enhance" photos, and possible ways to detect them.

is this REAL or a Reprint?

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