I've never seen one without the caption either. What ever happened to GAI anyway....are they still grading cards ? ughh, The sad truth is that the fakes are getting better and better. Especially the 19th century ones. There was just a slew of Old Judges on Ebay that ended yesterday and today. Made in2006/ 2007 by a card dealer in Illinois or Michigan who copied pictures from REA auctions and the Library of Congress's web site. Hundreds of these made there way to Ohio and Indiana also. I'm pretty sure the same guy sold several Cap Ansons before he was booted off Ebay back then. Making the Keefe card look beat up is part of the magic the counterfieters do to fool the untrained eye and sometimes to make the trained I take a 2nd glance. I wonder how many board members were bidding on the Old Judge lots I wrote of. I bid on one lot that had a player/team I collect. I noticed the other bidders were all people with high feedback and that bid on loads of cards. Someone will buy that Keefe card, but rpobably not for $400. I doubt the seller cares whether he gets $400 or $4 for it either. the dealer that was making the fake Old Judges was making a living off of it until ebay kicked him.
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