The wear looks manufactured, not natural. The toning looks fake, too uniform. The creases also do not look authentic, as if someone crumpled it up in order to make the card look older.
The red background should appear like it was painted with watercolors. Black dots in the red background are a bad sign. The text spelling out "Cobb, Detroit" should be solid black ink, no dots. Same deal on the Gerhig, the green print on the back should be solid letting, no print dots. If you do not know what print dots look like, use your 10x magnifier on the cover of a magazine... you will see the image is actually composed of thousands of tiny dots. If you have an ink jet printer, anything you print out will be composed of these tiny dots. In professional printing, they always had the ability to print text in solid ink. In general, most counterfeits are printed entirely composed of tiny dots (called half-tone printing) when in fact, very few, if any, cards have ever been printed entirely in half-tone.
Yes all from the same source but I did pay by paypal and they were discribed as real and not reprints. So I will try to get my money back from seller and if not will go through paypal as item not described as reprints. Thanks for all your help guys.
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The wear looks manufactured, not natural. The toning looks fake, too uniform. The creases also do not look authentic, as if someone crumpled it up in order to make the card look older.
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