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Originally Posted by jingram058
One of my best friends is a real contrarian. Takes an opposite or alternative view on everything. He has always been this way, going all the way back to grade school when we were kids. We call him "Mr. Perfect". No matter what the topic of discussion is, Mr. Perfect will weigh in with some contrarian, opposite counterpoint, always backed up with "facts". He had a girlfriend once some years back; very pretty and nice too. It lasted a few years, but fell apart in the end, because he drove her insane with his constant need to be right about everything.
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The contrarian view is that this card is a period knockoff of likely Philippine origin and not a Fritsch reprint, which only you (in post 43) and this guy (post 42 you "completely agree with") are going to be silly enough to endorse. Everyone else is well aware that this card is a Fritsch reprint as numerous people have stated and which is obviously true if somebody even just looks at the cards. It is somewhat impressive what obvious fictions people will endorse while criticizing the use of "facts" to form opinions.
Is this board capable of very basic common sense and able to engage with objective reality for just a single thread?
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Originally Posted by Balticfox
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.
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Originally Posted by jingram058
Completely agree with this. You should have seen the stuff for sale in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines back in the 1980s and 90s. Everything, and I mean everything, copied and for sale for pennies on the dollar.
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