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Originally Posted by brianp-beme
Chock one up for PSA - they got the Lajoie, M101-5, and blank back part correct on their label. They just forgot that they shouldn't be grading reprints.
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Originally Posted by jingram058
Expensive cardboard = more + more fakery
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Originally Posted by Leon
PSA sure knows vintage!
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The more I think about it, the more obvious it is to me that the card is not a present day fake.
First of all, no fraud artist would have sealed the card so crookedly. Sloppiness of that magnitude is a PSA hallmark.
But I don't understand how/why any fraudster would have added the black line around the player's photo. This card looks to be some other shyster's knockoff of these M101-5 cards that they used to sell their own product in 1916-17 without having to pay for the cards. So copyright infringement from over a century ago. Yes, there are other examples of this phenomenon. Outfits in the Philippines and other U.S. territorial possessions were often inclined to knock off American material and release it as their own.
