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Originally Posted by patrick7776
All I was asking is what makes you say its a reproduction?
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Just some of the red flags on this piece:
- Color is washed out. An original would NEVER have this type of color.
- Back is unmistakenly "fake" aged.
- From your scans, it's evident that this sign is printed in a dot-matrix pattern. Anything from that era CANNOT be dot-matrix... dot-matrix did not exist (first dot-matrix printer was introduced in 1970).
- Purchased on eBay. Collectors scour eBay... if there was even a remote chance it was real, it would have sold for a minimum of $50k.
- Size is wrong. Yours is too small.
- REA has told you its no good. Regardless of whether you consider Rob an expert or not, pretty much the entire vintage collecting world does consider Rob to be an expert and they will listen to his opinion (especially considering he has handled the real signed before).