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Old 12-01-2015, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by CW View Post
Your best bet might be to take it to a local card show (if there are any in your area) and have a few dealers look at it in person. Sometimes that's the only way to be definitive about a card's authenticity. BTW, that's the DiMaggio card from the '49 Leaf set (some refer to it as the '48 Leaf set), and the "1" is there because it's card #1 in the set (each card gets a number).
It should be noted that a lot of dealers aren't that good at telling fakes either. The top 3 grading companies are good (not perfect) at telling fakes. I have explained why some cards are not good only to have dealers not believe me. Oh well, all we can do is try.
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