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Originally Posted by bobbyw8469
Also compare the colors of the Anson to a real one. No way. That card shop should be ashamed of itself.
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I'm not saying you, or anyone else, is emphatically wrong in questioning the authenticity of the OP's posted cards. Don't know about the rest of you, but the scanned image by the OP appears to me to show all of the cards as a bit more "monotone" or faded than you would normally expect. Could it possibly be due to a bad scanner or image setting? The T205s definitely look faded, but oddly, that only appears to be the case on the top half of the T205 Mathewson, but on all of the T205 Clarke. Kind of reminds me also what could happen back in the day at outdootr flea markets when sellers would leave cards out on their tables in direct, bright sunlight. In looking further though, the bottom half of the T206 Young card may also appear to be a bit brighter and less faded than the top half of that card as well. And upon closer inspection, I then realized that on just the backs of the Mathewson and Young cards that there is a bluish discoloration or stain of some sort, that pretty much corresponds exactly to the portions of those two cards that appear to be the normal, brighter images on the fronts. I'd definitely like/want to see these cards in hand before making a final determination.