VERY interesting auction

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Posted By: Ben 

I must say, I ALMOST took the plunge on this one, but it definitely seemed too good to be true.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1976059974&category=31719

Oh well, someone used BIN just seconds after I came across it. man, 22 OJ's inluding Anson, 2 Keefes, 3 Brouthers, and so much more. My gut tells me these aren't genuine. please tell me I'm right, otherwise, that would have been the steal of a lifetime!

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Posted By: RobertS

These cards look like they are pasted on brand new blue oak tag like the kind used in grade schools nationwide. Moreover, the oak tag is a rich unfaded blue.

How many of you remember this stuff from when you were a kid -- or from your kids? The color fades in five seconds when placed in the light. This stuff looks deep blue.

So -- either it was kept in a dark closet forever, or it was just made yesterday. In which case, what idiot would paste real cards onto anything these days?

Now fake cards, however, paste 'em anywhere you like.

Too good to be true....

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: Ben

I had my cursor planted firmly over the "buy it now" icon for several minutes, experiencing a state of existential anguish

... should I do it...no, they have to be fake...but if they aren't, this would be the deal of a lifetime... ya Ben, thats why it is too good to be true...


and by the time I hit the refresh icon, someone had usd the BIN. I didn't know whether to bang my head against my desk or to breathe a sigh of relief.

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Posted By: David

In these types of cases it's prudent to compare the seller's cards with the cards at the Library of Congress' baseball card site. At least compare checklists .... A large percentage of the "could be real, could be old reprint, I'm not an expert" cards are copies of the LOC's images ... When the seller's images are of resonable size (bigger than in this auction), it's usually easy to identify the LOC reprints. The LOC's cards are lower grade ond often have idiosynchratic stains, marks or such damage. I'm fairly certain that the LOC hasn't had a recent garage sale, allowing the cards to show up on eBay and Yahoo.

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

These cards are replicas of the LOC cards. I checked the following poses and they matched perfectly.
1. Anson
2. Brouthers catching
3. Keefe batting

Too good to be true? You bet
later brian

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Posted By: Paul

So, does the seller bother to print out the replicas, paste them on a cardboard backing, paste them on blue paper and photograph them? Or is it all done electronically, and he sends you nothing, not even reprints?

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Posted By: Jay Miller

Are the LOC images in color? The thing that looks good about these are the different shades in the different cards, kind of what you see in any mixed group. The central image is a flattened Old Judge pack, very similar to what that fellow from Argentina(Rommani?) has listed on ebay now. You have to be skeptical about something like this but the scan sure looks good.

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Posted By: David

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

As the description says, the cards were once owned by the poet Carl Sandberg