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Posted By: David

To not miss a detail, sometimes the Oreo cookie effect can also appear with reprints of dark or off white cardstock cards on white cardstock. This is technically different that pasting pieces of paper onto cardstock, but will have the same effect.

The point being that, for example, a 33 Goudey cardstock is off white, and if it is dinged or touched, the area of damage won't magically turn bright white. Same goes for a 51B Mantle, and, in fact, most Pre-War cards.

And while I'm at it, another common sign of a reprint is a moire pattern in a real photo card, like an Old Judge or Fatima, and a moire pattern in the background of a T206 or throughout an entire Allen & Ginter. The moire pattern sometimes (not always) happens when a 'dot pattern' card is scanned. Real photo cards have no dot pattern, the Allen & Ginters do not have a halftone (dot) pattern, and T206s only have a dot pattern in isolated parts of the player picture (usually the players face, body, uniform).