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Old 12-27-2005, 12:15 AM
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Default Babe Ruth 1928 Fro Joy Complete Set Real Or Fake??

Posted By: davidcycleback

The original Fro Joys have a dot pattern in Ruth's picture and the white borders have no dots. Many to most reprints have the same pattern.

This seller knows little to nothing about what he's talking about, which I'm sure doesn't surprise many. For example, the cards he is selling have dotted lines on some of the edges (look at the pictures). This means they aren't singles as checklisted in the Standard Catalog, but were handcut cut from a sheet. The Fro Joy sheets and reprint sheets have the cards surrounded by dotted lines and with the at top text "Cut along the dotted lines." As these cards weren't cut well, following the dotted line like grandpa in a white Cadallac, the seller would have to be a mole with an eyepatch to think the edges were factory cut. Irrelevant to authenticity, who wants to buy from someone who doesn't mention that his cards were sorted by Edward Scissorshands.

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