Carlton,
Go to eBay and look at seller ACOFIND.
This person is from Muncie, Indiana and is KNOWN for selling fake items. PLENTY of fake items. One Net54 member got burned from buying a fake Bond Bread poster and I have seen this guy sell numerous other fake items over the years.
He has sold stuff under the name theolestuff and fourducks. Some of that stuff includes; Mickey Mantle Topps Giant cards, Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron Jello cards, Harley Davidson, Indian Motorcycle and Winchester advertising signs, Shirley Temple blue glass creamers, brown Mason jars and Dazey butter churns.
Most of this crap is not easy to reproduce (like a T206 is with a laser printer) so he HAS to be getting is somewhere (or making it himself).
I have reported him to eBay for YEARs and they do NOTHING about it even though they can go to Toolhaus.org and enter these names and SEE that buyers have complained about him selling fake items.
So, just because this piece might look real, would be hard to reproduce and the seller leaves some questions about it, that does NOT mean it IS real and that other people are passing it up because it is in the wrong category or it is too expensive for them.
Heck, I have very little money to spend on cards right now BUT if this thing were real and I could get it for $1,000 dollars and then turn around and sell it in a major auction house for much more then that, I would. I am SURE other people would too.
Scam artists are hoping (and preying) on people who have that 1% question in the back of their minds about "if" things just "might" be real.
David
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