1915 Cracker Jack Tom Downey card - real or reprint?

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Posted By: fkw

Obvious reprint, and all the easy ways to tell will be how they designed these reprints. When designing them they cropped photo and then added a new border and caption.

The "Cracker Jack" at top is too close to the border (photo cropped in designing of reprint), the uniform doesnt blend into the border (cropped photo then a new too white border added when reprint was designed), the caption is too bold (didnt quite get the caption right when they needed to design a new one after cropping the photo and adding a new border in design).

Also there are other ways to tell such as the back not being upside down and the surface will be too smooth and have a gloss or waxy look, and the card stock will be different and of higher quality on the reprints.

Once you know where to look these reprints are easy to spot.

Try to get your $$ back if you can. About 10%-20% of all E145-2 cards on ebay are doctored reprints.