Take a look at this Cobb

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Posted By: Steve M.

Do the sides look handcut to you? Top trimmed? I'm not all that familiar with this issue so maybe they come that way. Any comments?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1912-T227-Series-of-Champions-Ty-Cobb-Chief-Bender_W0QQitemZ8795426014QQcategoryZ86841QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

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Posted By: Ben

All of those cards look very odd to me. Wavy cuts, faded colors, I would stay clear of them.

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Posted By: steve f

Ben, I think that's just poor cropping by the seller. The edges are decent upon zooming.

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Posted By: Joe Jones

Must be bad scans as well. The color is very light.

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Posted By: Steve M.

there's no way that's a cropping issue. If it were the edges would be straight and even. I will agree that the faded look may be due to poor scanning but not those edges.

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Posted By: fkw

The strange color alone would keep me from bidding, but also what he sells. He has only 5 PreWar items out of almost 400, and best item is a T206 McGinnity (looks trimmed). His other scans have normal color, and he has a few graded cards, why are these a strange color, and why not have these graded????

Im not sure, but I dont even think the T227s are authentic.



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Frank

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Posted By: Josh K.

I agree - they all looked very phony to me. In addition, if you look close at some of the edges, it almost appears as though its a color print on paper that has been glued onto some cardboard (some of the edges appear to have a double line to them - look at the bottom edge of the cobb card).