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Old 06-07-2006, 01:42 PM
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Default Need Help Dating a Ruth/Gehrig Advert

Posted By: Zach Rice

I would say it is fake as well. This image can easily be found and may even look good in person but scam artists have become so clever lately it is tough to tell with pieces like these. I recently purchased a piece that the only known image of it anywhere was put in a book and was an image about 2 inches tall and the one I bought was fake. Someone in the last few months, the book has only been out that long, had taken that little image out of the book and blown it up into the size of a poster over a foot tall, and they did a pretty good job with it too. I sent actual size scans of it to Rob Lifson who believed it to be authentic through the pictures but when in hand he could tell it was a reprint in seconds because of the paper stock. My poster also showed age spots and even fade from being in the sun and it was produced less than 6 months ago. If you want to know a difinitive answer on it's authenticity, send it to an expert.

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