T206 Speaker on Ebay

[joebrandon1977]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tris-Speaker-190...item230e434536

Does this card look legit? It almost looks too good to be real and makes me wonder why it has not been graded yet.

I am not a T206 expert, and not claiming this is fake. Just wanted to get some opinions from the board.

Thanks!
Joe

[fkw]

Id say reprint, but I Dont know of that type of reprint, with the correct font and caption (beside color)

Might be scanner settings... ???

The things I see...
The border and the uniform should be the same color, this card the uni has a yellow tint when compared to the border.

The "BOSTON" on uni should be lighter red, yet the borders and overall color of picture seem too bright?

The Caption should be brown when compared to the thin line above it that is black. The back and the caption colors are goofy, but the whole scan might be just messed with ??

The blue is slightly off register yet at the left border it has a bumpy look to it, same with the black line, not solid. Also around the face and hat seems to be dots not seen on authentic cards.

example scan (not mine)

[FrankWakefield]

I'd not incur the postage both ways to be given that card if the 'seller' offered to mail it to me if I'd send him a stamped envelope. The caption is not right. The blue bleeding out beyond the frame at the belt looks wrong, the frame looks odd, dittos on what FKW says about the uniform 'color'. Whenever I see 'no returns accepted' it is like a warning beacon that says 'I'm ripping someone off', even when they have 'no returns on graded cards', BS to that. And aren't the Rothman Galleries in Lancaster, PA, not New York???

[bbcard1]

Pretty sure it is fake...and I want to believe. I want to believe because I prefer non-slabbed cards, but the uni bothers me in it's tint and the bad scan. Also, of course you can't see in 3-D, but it "looks" like the stock is wrong...way too thin. The other thing is that though the seller has good feedback, it looks like it has all been achieved though selling 1991 Emmett Smith Wild Card 10 Stripes and 1997 Flair Ken Griffeys. My advice is, "Move along, nothing to see here."

[FrankWakefield]

bbcard1, I thought it looked thin, too. But when I started to type that, I went back and looked at the card again, and decided to not mention thinness, because I thought someone here would take me to task over that. Now that I'll have company, I agree with you. The card looks like it's printed on thinner cardstock than that of real T206s.

[quinnsryche]

Looks 100% fake to me. More red flags than a NASCAR race!