1956 PSA Mantle - Am I just being paranoid?

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• ymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 1:49AM

  I don't know about the font, but the slab looks none too healthy, and that card is definitely not PSA 8 quality.
  
  
  Edited for spelling.

  Brett

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• Stingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 1:49AM

  Fake font on the flip, no way that card is an 8!!

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• leathtech Posts: 3,191 ✭

  June 13, 2008 1:55AM

  I think the seller just messed with the sharpen tool in Photoshop - the font gets very pixilated(sp?) when you sharpen the heck out of a card. I would aviod the auction!

  

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• Stingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 1:58AM

  That font is to blocky, if that is a word, for a PSA slab, IMO. Card does not appear to be an 8, and there is some frosting, though hard to see, on the edges of the holder. Scan appears to try and not show the whole holder.

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• Morgoth Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 2:03AM

  Two sides have frosting, probably been removed and replaced with a cheaper mantle.

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• martyogelvie Posts: 86

  June 13, 2008 2:35AM

  Something I hear often;
  Buy the card, not the holder.
  
  In this case, I think the holder is a farse..

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• divecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 3:47AM

  The font on the flip does not look the same as the flips on my cards. I compared it to the same type of flip on my 1950's cards and the numbers 9, 5 and 8 do not match up at all.
  
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• chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 6:18AM

  If that's an 8, then I am crosseyed. a real crop job on the holder. Stay Away. chaz

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• NickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 8:03AM

  That looks like one of the Craigslist fakes to me.
  
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• jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭

  June 13, 2008 8:35AM

  It looks like a real card, can't tell if it's a hair or a crease on mick's chin.
  
  I agree that the holder was split and the card swapped out. I checked all of my slabs and I don't have any at all with a white little round rivet looking thing at the bottom left corner of the red psa flip. All of mine look original and not popped open like that.
  
  The craigslist cards I've seen have mostly had the same bar code on the flip and been fake cards, and some have even had slabs without the PSA mark on the bottom right. Mick looks real but maybe an 8 taken out and a 6 or 7 (or lower) card put back in.
  
  

  

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• nightcrawler729 Posts: 470 ✭✭

  June 13, 2008 2:45PM

  Thanks for the input - I'll move along...these aren't the droids I'm looking for.

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