Strip cards real?

[danmckee]

This guy has a few strips up, no commons. They look funny to me, you can see a dot pattern into the borders on this Hornsby.

I would appreciate board member opinions before I persue this.

thanks
dan

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920-W516-ROGERS-HORNSBY-4-STRIP-CARD-/230820096573?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item35bdf32a3d

[richieb315]

In February he was selling them at reprints. I would pass.

[ullmandds]

honestly...at first glance the hornsby looks just wierd...and the stock also seems odd...but I'm not 100% sure?!

[Leon]

Writing shouldn't be blue. (though this Gowdy at bottom is missing ink pass(es) so it gets a pass:)) Yuck for the ebay one!!!

http://luckeycards.com/pw516varieties8x.jpg

[christopher.herman]

100% reprints as well as this seller's W515's listed here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230819631155?redirect=mobile

[danmckee]

Thanks everyone! I am reporting them

[FrankWakefield]

1- I think it's a fake. I don't think that's from a reprint set, I think someone scanned a real one and printed some off with a pc and printer.

2- The top border has a bit of an edge there where it looks imperfectly printed.

3- I think that card will fluoresce.

4- On the upside, he does offer a return policy....

[Exhibitman]

I think the card in question was printed with a laser printer from an original. At first I thought it was a moire pattern from a scanner but look at the white areas on the edges as compared to the unprinted borders of the card; a scanner-created pattern would appear everywhere.

One slight correction to some of the posts above: the Universal Matching Series cards in their various permutations are sometimes found with blue rather than black ink. Holds true for the analogous W529s as well.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/entertainmentmemorabiliaforsale/large/W529-5%2051%20Dempsey%20blue.JPG

[Wite3]

The paper stock is wrong as well...does not look right on the scan.

Joshua