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Posted By: davidcycleback

When looking in person at a baseball tobacco cabinet card, like an Old Judge,
realize that one of the hardest thing to forge is the cardboard mount. The
mounts were factory cut, the old Judges with gold gilt edges and lettering, the
lettering possibly slightly embossed, perhaps with foxing on back.

I would think that if you had in person a forged OJ cabinet, the mount itself
would look bad, perhaps with hand cut edges, etc.

There are cases where a forger will take an original mount and paste a desirable
subject over the original image, but the fake image almost always has the tell-tale
color dot pattern.

I don't know about the Newsboys, but many cabinet card edges from the Old Judge era
were bevel cut by the factory-- meaning the edge is cut at an angle. This is
a detail that can be seen with the right digital images. And, though much
could flake off, the OJ cabinets had gold gilded edges, and the gold is often
visible in a digital image.