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goudey guyI too have owned a fake Fro Joy card or two. The reprints, as previously stated, are black and white, and appear to be on a very crisp white and thin cardbord stock. Sometimes tehy are colored (which should tell you that they are most definately reprints).
REAL FRO JOYS were made on a thicker stock of card board which has a dirtier off white almost yellow color to it. They remind me of a Neilsons card in the heavier cardboard stock. I have seen the real ones too, they do exist. The problem with real Fro Joys, is that there are so very few of the real ones in existance, that nearly all vintage card collectors haven't been exposed to them. I haven't seen a real Fro Joy offered on Ebay ever, and have "saved" a bidder or two from learning the hard way. If there's one thing that irritates me more than sellers with a bad attitude, its sellers who sell fakes, reprints, and altered cards. Reprints bog down our hobby.