Please help. Real or fake????

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewfront.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewback.jpg"><br /><br />Im not 100% sure if this is real. I have a PSA 3 that Im holding it against and it looks real but I would like to hear some opinions.<br />Thanks guys<br /><br /><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewfrontname.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewfronttop.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewfrontright.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k107/peterosepsa/cobbnewfrontleft.jpg"><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Brad</b><p>Real ~ possibly trimmed, most likely miscut!

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Posted By: <b>Turner Engle</b><p>real with what looks like a diamond cut.

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Posted By: <b>MVSNYC</b><p>real, miscut, diamond-cut

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Posted By: <b>Brad</b><p>Personally I'd be extra cautious when looking at desirable RAW cards (T206 Cobb).<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Real- but I've never seen the name and team double printed like that.

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Posted By: <b>Mark T</b><p>real but PSA most likely will give it a (MC) qualifier.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Yea, thats what through me off was the name. I too have never seen a double printed name. <br />But it looks ok

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Posted By: <b>B.C.Daniels</b><p>for sure - paper is nicely aged from "F" color to "I" color in terms of oxydition<br><br>BcD <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Steve D</b><p>i am not so sure that this card is miscut, it is IMO out of focus or registration though. Look at Ty's eyes they too are 'doubled' <br /><br /><br />I think this card would still fit in a holder.<br /><br /><br />I could be wrong.<br /><br /><br />Steve<br /><br /><br />edited to add: also look at the right border and you can see where the yellow ink bleeds over to the white border.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Do you think I should grade it or just put it in a 1/4 case? Im going to keep it, but may sell it in a few years<br /><br />"i am not so sure that this card is miscut, it is IMO out of focus or registration though. Look at Ty's eyes they too are 'doubled'<br /><br /><br />I think this card would still fit in a holder.<br /><br /><br />I could be wrong.<br /><br /><br />Steve<br /><br /><br />edited to add: also look at the right border and you can see where the yellow ink bleeds over to the white border."<br /><br />Does that mean that its real?

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Posted By: <b>Steve D</b><p>I would get it graded. That way it is at least authenticated. It may get a OF qualifier (one not normally seen as of late though) If it was a coin you would have a winner. <br /><br /><br />Steve

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Posted By: <b>Steve D</b><p>Pete that I can not answer to. The other guys here have way more experience in that regard then i will ever have. I am simply stating my opinion that it is a registration problem that caused the card to appear doubled like that. Is it real? i have no idea.<br /><br />I assume it is as many here have said so.<br /><br /><br />Get it graded and then you will have no doubt!<br /><br />Good luck, I like the card.<br /><br /><br />Steve

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>As a coin it resembles the 1955 double die Lincoln Penny.

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>The dark brown in the hair (top line of head) and eye lids are also double printed.<br /><br />This would prove the caption is printed in the pass with the dark brown details, not in a pass by itself.

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Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>That Cobb card is real. Definitely.<br /><br />It is miscut, and slightly diamond cut, but I don't think either of those account for all that is wrong there at the bottom of the card. It looks like additional cutting occurred. <br /><br />Brown printing pass seems doubled, as mentioned above.<br /><br />You asked if we'd get it graded. I definitely would not, unless I was going to sell it. No way I'd get that graded if I were keeping it.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Thanks. <br />Yea I wasnt sure if it had been cut again. I dont think it has. It measures the same as my other red back. And it does go at an angle on the bottom. But if you look at the top it also angles the other direction. Any advice as to how I can tell if it may have been cut?

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Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>Get an index card, or a piece of card stock (did you get a shirt for Christmas, get that cardboard in the collar or backing). Cut it once, with a pair of scissors. Get a REALLY strong magnifying lens, and look at 2 edges, the one you cut and the one that was already cut. The one you cut will show a slight mashing down of the edge of the paper, and the nature of the cut will be different. I think if you study that, then look at the edges on your card, and other T206s, you'd get a feel for what a natural edge looks like....<br /><br />I could type all day, and probably would get about as far describing the difference as I would if I tried to explain what beer tastes like... ya just gotta try it yourself!

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Great, Thanks.<br />I just looked over it with my 10X loop and I dont think its been cut. If I were to get it graded SGC maybe? Do yall think they would give it a 2? The card is clean but it just has those damn factory errors.

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Posted By: <b>Robert {Bigb13}</b><p>My two cents is that it is real with a cool double print of the name. Rob

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Posted By: <b>DD</b><p>Pamela Anderson - fake<br />Kim Kardashian - real<br /><br />Oh sorry; misunderstood the title. Me and my gutter mind. LOL (Insert smiley)