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Raw 52 Topps mantle

epislashepislash Posts: 292
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Stay away? It's posted in a fb group I'm a part of. Looking for $3500 obo. Good price?

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Pete
.Looking for ANY National Bank notes of Skaneateles, NY

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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    Stay Away
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • canjondcanjond Posts: 422 ✭✭✭
    Fake.
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  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    Run and don't look back.
    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • dberk12dberk12 Posts: 399 ✭✭
    So he would rather take $3500 OBO than spend a nominal fee to send the card to PSA and potentially get VCP average between $6500 - $8000? Run away for sure.


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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    My god....faker than a 3 dollar bill! It seems those groups just pray on the gullible.
  • MrNearMintMrNearMint Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    What about the card looks fake? Just curious
  • rcmb3220rcmb3220 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm in that group and saw that. I don't think anyone is buying that it's real. A grown man who chooses a picture like that for FB shouldn't be trusted when it comes to an 87 topps bob knepper, let alone that.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    What about the card looks fake? Just curious

    This card was double printed and the two printings have slight differences.

    One thing I noticed is the top border around Mantle’s name. On the version where the black border is smooth (as is the one on FB), the lower left corner is missing a pixel, thus not forming a complete square corner. The one on FB has the lower border overlaping the left side border. It's hard to tell, but also on the version where the black border is smooth, the stitches on the baseball in the top left on the reverse are facing to the left.
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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    The whole image looks "Xeroxed" to me. Im sorry, but it just looks like a fake. Even in poor shape, it should have a crisper look than that.
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even from a bad, bad picture, you can tell that there are no pixels on the card itself. It's probably on thinner stock too. You can probably shine a flashlight right through it.

    Shane

  • TommyJTommyJ Posts: 14 ✭
    This guy is a complete scam artist.

    Ebay ID is hondacrazy2011
    TommyJ
  • epislashepislash Posts: 292
    Thanks guys. Not that I had planned on buying it but if it was real I knew it's more than 3500 so I would've somehow found that money to get it. I'll be passing for sure
    .Looking for ANY National Bank notes of Skaneateles, NY
  • thunderdanthunderdan Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭
    With this card in particular, I'm not sure why anyone would buy raw. The chances are so high that it is counterfeit, trimmed, colored, or some/all of the above. I understand the desire to get a good deal, but with many things in life, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. I think this especially applies to the 52 Mantle.




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  • CeciliaGuanteCeciliaGuante Posts: 94


    << <i>With this card in particular, I'm not sure why anyone would buy raw. The chances are so high that it is counterfeit, trimmed, colored, or some/all of the above. I understand the desire to get a good deal, but with many things in life, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. I think this especially applies to the 52 Mantle. >>



    Truth.

    ETA: It has those perfectly rubbed corners and creases right in the middle, just as you would expect when a con artist is trying to make a card look old.
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