just wanted to add, most "doctored reprints" will have faked corner wear and creases like a common baseball card, showing slightly rounded or dogeared corners with white where its worn.
A real T200 is not a printed card, it is a REAL PHOTOGRAPH, and if you bend them they will often break or at least crack. and to add most will have some crazing (small cracks to the surface when held at an angle to the light), and they also often are slight curled because the photo part has shrunk ever so slightly over time, more than the photo paper its on, (same with T222, N172s)
They are some of the easiest of "doctored reprints" to spot.
PS. also never soak an authentic T200 or T222, they will be destroyed, real photographs and water dont mix.
|