When I first started collecting pre-war as a naive 21 year old, I was taken by our local card shop owner, his name was John Ianacello, now deceased (rot in hell you POS), He sold me two 1933 Goudey Dover reprints as authentic after we had been doing business for quite awhile, I had very little money, we would talk about cards all the time and I trusted him so when I had saved enough for my first Babe Ruth card, a #181, he sold me a fake and he knew it.
We can all tell the difference between the two now, thanks to this sub but back then there wasn't any Net54 or anybody who knew about pre-war that I could turn to other than John. I didn't discover the ruse until years later, it broke my heart because I considered him a friend.
I still hold on to that Dover #181 Ruth today as a reminder to trust but verify. And because every card needs a thread here's what I replaced the Dover with when I got back into the hobby.
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