Real or Fake Post Cereal Vintage Cards

[HOF Yankees]

Does anyone have any tips on how to tell if the 1960s era Post Cereal Baseball cards are real or fake??

What should I be looking out for if buying them raw/ungraded

Any info will help, thanks

[swarmee]

Can you post some pictures if you think you have some counterfeits being offered to you? I think the card stock, perforations, paper pasted over cardboard, etc mean very few counterfeits are produced of these cards. I would figure only Mantles would be faked.

[Rich Klein]

In 1961, you could order most of those cards from the factory and they come perforated and the stock is much thinner than those cut from a box.

If that's what you are worried about, then that is your answer.

As to Post Cereal fakes, I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about them but I suppose anythng is possible

Regards
Rich

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Can you post some pictures if you think you have some counterfeits being offered to you? I think the card stock, perforations, paper pasted over cardboard, etc mean very few counterfeits are produced of these cards. I would figure only Mantles would be faked.

A Mantle is the only fake I have seen. Not sure what it came from but the "card" was cut from what looked like a magazine advertisement glued to a piece of cereal box cardboard. Because it was really printed on a press it looked real until in hand.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

As to Post Cereal fakes, I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about them but I suppose anythng is possible

Regards
Rich

That's what I was thinking too Rich. I don't remember ever hearing about or seeing a fake Post Cereal card. But maybe they were so good we didn't realize they were fake?

[gonefishin]

I don't think I have ever run across a fake post cereal card. I often see where someone is selling a Jello version as a Post or a perforated card as hand cut. However, a counterfeit I don't remember ever coming across.

This thread needs a photo. Here is a card I personally cut from the box back in the day. I had absolutely no clue that one day I would discover it was one of the rarest Post cards out there.