Thoughts on this 38 Goudey

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

http://cgi.ebay.com/1938-Goudey-Joe-DiMaggio-274-PSA-NM-MT-8_W0QQitemZ8776343889QQcategoryZ86843QQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem

Could this possibly be true? And why the private auction?

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Posted By: John Kal

Anyone who has followed Superior Sports Auctions and looked at their archived auctions (which are no longer available on their site as far as I know) will recognize this image as stolen from them. The crooks have long used this site to harvest images. By the way, this is one of my favorite cards. Anyone have a clean, untoned PSA 6 or 7 available? PS. RIP Kirby.

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Posted By: Robert

hijacked the same seller has numerous cards posted that are all stolen.

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Posted By: max

Though I see no other items offered by the seller,
compare to a recent real example from a real seller:

http://tinyurl.com/rgnpd

In the current listing, see the magenta excess in Joe's sleeves and in the blush on his face, while the amber of bat looks true?
. . .somebody's not doing good color matching
(I'm not certain if the yellow border is also too light--it's darker on my '38 #250 [same image as #274, but without the captioning], though as the card stock's darker on what I have (as it also is on the real #274) it would darken a lighter ink like the yellow)

and note that
Checking feedback: The seller has been registered on ebay for many years and has sold NOTHING before.
The card is at a tiny fraction of true value (go get those fish! .. and thus the private auction :p