T206 Cy Young...Any reservations?

[bbcard1]

I am traveling and a friend of mine who normally sells only shiny stuff asked me about the authenticity of this card:





Mostly, I like it.

Here's the things that give me enough pause to submit it to this proud assembly for further review:

1) I have only a couple Sovreigns, none of them here, therefore I have no basis for comparison. I have handled hundreds of raw T206s, but my experience with this brand is minimal.

2) I originally didn't like the way the background looked, but have come to peace with it after a little internet research. The green sometimes has yellow show through.

3) I found a few Youngs with the 350 subject back, not many with the 150 back

4) the surface has a tad less "tooth" that some t206s...it certainly isn't glossy by any means, but has a very slightly discernible smoothness to it that Piedmonts don't. It is very slight..almost to the "i might be thinking too much" point.

Thoughts? My lack of experience with S150s and the lack of a comparison are the main things that give me pause.

[gnaz01]

Looks fine to me.

[Ladder7]

Great looking Cy. How much?

[fkw]

authentic, very easy to tell

nice card!

T206 cards are fairly easy to authenticate

in order to get a clean reprint the printers would crop the image area and add a new caption to a new blank white border... the caption font and sometimes the border width will give them away. On some older reprints the printer just rescreened the entire card but these will have print dots in the normally pure white border and the caption will be duller and not as crisp in details.

The only fakes that may fool an expert (in an auction listing or on internet) because they are exact copies from an image of an authentic card... is a homemade fake made on an inkjet printer (front and back printed out and glued together), but in person these would stand out as obvious fakes.

[christopher.herman]

Everything about it looks correct.

[asoriano]

As others have stated, it is definitely authentic.

I'd valued it around $650.

[rp12367]

I think it looks legit, nice card.

[FrankWakefield]

I agree with most of what's above. It's authentic. The cut looks slightly askew. Great back. I have a slabbed Young portrait that I haven't broken out, and I'd swap it for that Sovereign Young. Nice card, hope you get it.