What are these ?
 

On ebay UK sold last night , photo and selling price for each card.

Can someone please explain , as are these not early facsimile repro ?
Or are they originals ?
Your opinion please.

J Leonard - left field $515.85

McMullen - center field $1181

McJeary - Catcher $1577.00

R.C Basrig - Second base $1897

George Hull - right field - $725

They are reprints.

I thought they may be , but are they that valuable , or is it a case that several buyers got it terribly wrong.

Seem an absurd amount of money for reprints

I did not bid or purchase any of the cards

for those interested copy and paste the numbers into ebay..

eBay item number: 231361554265 Tim Devlin

eBay item number: 331347974859 R Barnes

eBay item number: 321553647867 M McCleary

eBay item number: 321553647692 Joe Batten

eBay item number: 231361553680 Jim McMullen

eBay item number: 33134797366 George Hall

eBay item number: 321553647181 Dan Casey

eBay item number: 331347973195 A G Leonard

Several buyers got it wrong. Aesthetic value, since they look crappy, is nil. The only value, to me, would be the value of the amount of heat they put off if set on fire.

We see time and again on ebay people paying absurd sums for worthless reprints. I can't figure it out.

And R.C Basrig is in fact Ross Barnes.

The seller is normally a good seller (at least on nonsports stuff) but has REPEATEDLY sold these after he's been warned. I think he got duped on them and is trying to cut his losses maybe. This is the 2nd or 3rd time this has cropped up and I know for sure he was warned each of the other two times.

Not only are they reprints, they are copies of the originals in the NYPL. The originals are actual photographs pasted onto a cabinet card. The clarity is vastly different and the originals have the actual pencil handwriting. The ones I have seen all seem to originate in Great Britain. While I think they are worthless, apparently a number of people like them.

All I can say is " Ouch" ! I feel bad for those who bought them .

lol

It's funny because any one of us could create a much better looking reprint, gluing actual prints the NYPL images to distressed mounts, and do quite well selling them. It shows that there is still a lot of honesty in our hobby (at least among us), despite the crooks.

There must have been a bunch of these sold to unsuspecting buyers. I recently emailed a different seller with a couple NYPL reprints, he swore they were real because 2 shop owners told him so......