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Posted By: Hankron

This also says that, even if a collector has never seen a N162 or All & Ginter except in a MastroNet auction or on eBay, he or she can still make a reasonable judgement of authenticity of those Allen & Ginters at an estate sale or that someone is trying to sell you in person. I'm not neccesarilly saying that a collector should plunk down $2,000 on an Cap Anson Old Judge without a second opinion, but the collector with a good handheld microscope or powerful loupe should with easy identify any and all Old Judge, Allen & Ginter and N162 counterfeits and reprints-- even if you've never seen one in person before.

Simply remember that any and all reprints (again I'm talking about reprints that closely resemble the originals you see online. Someone could make a sharpie sketch of an Allen & Ginter that has no halftone printing dots, but you don't need a loupe to judge the authenticity of the one) of an Old Judge, Allen & Ginter, N162 Gypsy Queen will be made up of the halftone dots, almost always in a variety of colors. It's as simple as that.