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Posted By: Chris Counts

It's amazing how many collectors will spend a lot of money on a card without researching the color of its back. A local dealer (I live in the Bay Area) once proudly showed me a 1934 Gehrig he paid a couple hundred dollars for and it had black lettering on the back. It wasn't even a decent fake ... the surface was way too glossy and image was blurred ... it was sad to see the look on his face when I pointed this out to him ...