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Posted By: Tom

reprints too.....went to look at what I THOUGH was a nice vintage collection of T206's, Delongs and Goudeys locally only to find out they were worthless reprints. The card stock is definitely thinner and glossy (although the gloss can be removed by 'aging'). The original Delongs are pretty easy to tell from the reprints. The repints do have the tagline 'reprint' on the back, and like most other reprint scammers, they erase that and then age it somehow and try to pass off as real. My advice would be go to a large show and look at and touch some 'real' ones before trying to buy online. Also buy online from people who have good reputations if possible or buy only graded cards. Someone had some nice VG to VGEX Delongs that were SGC graded lately on ebay. I definitely feel Derek at SGC and those folks know their vintage cards MUCH better than PSA when it comes to this but the Delong reprints shouldn't be slabbed as they're pretty easy to detect.