Posted By:
Dave F
Shawn-
What are the odds someone would pick United Cigar to use as a designed fake? Well, as good as anything else.
There have been millions of T206's that have been through the hobby. Not one other T206 has ever been documented to have such a print along with it. I know per our phone conversation earlier you said there is just a good of a chance this is a legit print and that it could very well be the first one found...to that I say bull-crapo.
T206's are the most common of any pre-war card out there. I just really believe by 2008 there would have been something else like this found before now. If this was a T208 we were talking about, then of course there is room for finding new evidence to that series...I just don't believe that same factor goes into play with T206's at this point, not to this magnitude.
Shawn, I also don't buy your theory on the United Cigar print being able to leak perfectly through. I don't buy it was a "different printing process" than what the Sweet Caporal process would have been. Show me one scan of another card where there is paperloss but the print is still there beneath the top layer. This is cardboard, not paper.