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Originally Posted by Jason19th
My issue isn’t really about CSG. It a more general concern about authentication when there is no exemplar that you can work from.
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There are a few ways to authenticate something when it's the first of its kind discovered. Most have to do with how it was made and if that method and the materials were available at the time AND in the place it was supposedly made.
AS for the rest of it, I'd want to at least see some decent resolution scans.
That would finish the laser printed vs not laser printed question.
Rounding corners takes seconds, not hours so that means very little.
Player selection doesn't mean much either. Most good forgers of small printed items have done both rare and very ordinary items. As one banknote forger said when asked what he would change if he was starting over "I'd counterfeit ones. Nobody ever gives those a second glance. "
The long play is to fake commons, then "discover" a star card once the commons have been accepted as as a legitimate set.
There's also a bit of higher interest in a players only card from his playing days.
It's also conceivable that these are some sort of privately and poorly made tribute set to the players who only mattered locally or to the producer. Which then got faked by someone else and falsely attributed to a card producer from the area.
In general, good expertisers approach an item not with the intent to prove it to be genuine, but to prove it to be fake. Only once something fails all tests that would indicate it's fake, can it really be considered genuine.