Card listed as a Reprint but it was Real?
 

I stumbled across the following card which was listed as a reprint but looked real to me. I put in a bid at 2.50 to take a shot at it but unfortunately I think I sent alarm bells off to the seller with a question that I asked and he yanked the auction. He said he has no intention of relisting. Anyone ever encounter anything like this?

Also what are your thoughts on the card? Does anyone agree with me that it is real or is it just a great fake?

Listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/114691913271

There are plenty of unscrupulous sellers who will post an image of a real card and send you a reprint. That may be what happened here, but I can't explain why he pulled the auction.

When I messaged him he said that he listed it as a reprint because he doubted that he'd have a real card from the early 1900s. Sounds scammy to me except when I consider that he was looking for $4 for a Rhoades card, I end up thinking he may have just been uneducated on the cards.

The images provided certainly look legit, although something funny on the bottom corners seems to be going on, perhaps a recent roughing up to make the corners more rounded, for some darn reason.

Brian

Looks legit, but sketchy based on response.

No reason to fake that one. 350/30 back is one of the most common backs for this player.

Why
 

does that left edge toward the bottom look shiny white?

It seems to be part of what I mentioned about the bottom corners...as if they had been recently scraped (at least within the last several years or even within past decade). For whatever reason.

Brian

I wonder if the seller rounded them out trying to make the card look "more real" after foolishly thinking it was a reprint.

Not at sales, but I've had a few items shown to me where the person assumed it was fake or reprint and it was real.

Years ago, there was a woman who had a one-of-a-kind Christy Mathewson minor league imperial cabinet card on eBay that was obviously was original, and she clearly didn't know what it was.

Looks good to me - BUT at end of day it's a $35 card. Can't imagine why he would shut it down and not relist - Weird....

It looks like a reprint to me.

The card looks fine to me.

Assuming it's real, what would it be worth?

Barely anything as we all know. My point of the post was that I found it interesting that there was a card listed as a reprint in the title when it was most likely real, when usually we see the exact opposite thing in this hobby; a reprint that someone is trying to pass off as being genuine.

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Never had a fake anything turn out to be real. That hope is the impulse that makes "selling as a reprint" so profitable on eBay. Closest I ever get is finding something grossly misdescribed, like an H815 Adam Hats premium listed as a photo or a well known subject listed as someone else or as an unknown subject. Those are fun. I once bought a postcard described as a postcard in terrible condition, which it was, but the back had a handwritten note and signature from the HOFer shown on the front.

One of my George C. Millers was listed as "old baseball card"