Posted By:
Frank WakefieldThis strip reminds me of that phony Goudey calendar card from a few months ago....
For anyone who even remotely thinks the strip is real, look at it again. Click it up in the auction site. Now open another window beside it and go to eBay, or somewhere that has real cards. Forget about the colors that are missing, (Bowerman's red B, Young's gray jersey).... Look at the buttons on Bowerman and Brown on their real cards. The buttons are white. Same as the border. American Litho wasn't using white ink, that is a lack of ink that shows white. And that is the color those borders should be. If the buttons on that strip are white, so should the borders, too. But they're not.
At the beginning I said I'd not pay $5 for that Goudey thing. I would pay $5 for this strip, not because it is authentic, but because it is kinda neat looking. But it isn't from 1909. Folks look at it and get excited and want it to be real... but it isn't.