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Scott ForrestThere are very few pre-war issues that have "near perfect" fakes, especially the color lithographs which no advanced collector would be fooled by.
If you collect these issues already and have a 10x, you should have no problem spotting reprints or forgeries. If you are starting vintage issues you haven't dealt with in the past, it is only common sense to begin with low-grade commons before moving to expensive cards. If you choose to do otherwise you are the exact type of person the scammers are looking for, and you have too much extra money laying around and won't mind being separated from it.