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Posted By: fkw

Stains, paper stock, caption boldness, wear are all consistant and not anything like the reprints.

the reprints are made of a modern smooth surfaced card stock, and sometimes has a glossy or waxy surface. The picture area will be cropped and a new border and caption will be added to the card, making the border and uniform not blend together where they meet. Also the reproduced caption is usually too bold and too dark on the reprints.

Authentic cards are made of a thin low quality brittle rough textured paper, almost like construction paper. The light parts of the uniform is the same color as the border, the natural paper color, and will blend together where they meet.

The Johnson is a E145-1 so it is slightly tougher to tell from just looking at a scan since the back is printed right side up.

The E145-2 cards are one of the easiest to authenticate, as the authentic cards all have a back that is printed upside down.