Did this person waste $200 or not?

[mintacular]

Was wondering if you guys think any of the cards in the auction were authentic. The plaquard says "Tobacco Reprints" but any chance some of the cards were original especially the Mathewson? Apparently someone thought so. What say you?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...K%3AMEWAX%3AIT

[4815162342]

They look like photocopy cutouts to me.

[tbob]

Pat- I think all the T206s are reproductions. The Matty, though, is intriguing. It does appear that possibly it might be real although why someone would put a 3-5k card with a bunch of reprints makes no sense so the Matty is probably a reprint too.
tbob

[canjond]

Wasted money

[4815162342]

Nevermind.

[vintagetoppsguy]

His eBay username is cons14. How appropriate!

[Zach Wheat]

The first thing I thought of when I saw them was photocopy....the colors were too bold

[Matthew H]

It looks like the metal plate actually is stamped "reprints" when you enlarge the photo. The seller stated that he is no expert so I'll have to assume he can't read either.

[jbbama]

That noise i hear is money being flushed down the toilet, unless the buyer just "likes" it. ")

[fkw]

The frame is worth $10

the rest are homemade fakes

[T206Collector]

...looking for the deal of the century on eBay. Save your money for the real things, boys.

[mintacular]

Thank you everyone for your opinions. I did not bid on the item but did have it on my watchlist...I was 99% sure the T206 cards were reprints (as the plaque said) but since the Mathewson is an E candy card just b/c the display says something doesn't mean that someone couldn't have put an original in the display. I thought there was an outside possibility this was the case with the Mathewson. Looking at the Mathewson, the font especially and to some extent the color was not too far off from the real deal...