Thanks for the information about what to look for to determine if cards from these sets are originals or fakes. Unfortunately, since many online listings don't have high quality pictures posted, it can be hard to tell if the images are worse than they should be because the card is a fake or just a bad image of a real card. All of this does make me nervous about possibly starting to collect some of these older sets. I have not collected T206s so I still can't readily say why the Cobb shown in this thread would be a fake. I am not a big fan of graded cards and clearly the grading companies don't always do a great job of identifying fakes, but that may be what I will need to rely on more going forward, at least for buying cards online.
I have been thinking of starting to collect the T205 set. Is that a set that has significant issues with fakes being sold? If so, is there a good way to tell specifically for that set, or do the same suggestions listed for other sets apply to T205s as well?
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