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01-10-2015, 11:46 AM
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Move along.......
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01-10-2015, 11:53 AM
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I guess I'm getting a bit better at this. Not only does that look fake to me, it's an obvious fake. Part of Babe's left foot is missing and the area between the photo and border is much too wide.
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01-10-2015, 01:42 PM
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. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on others lives" - Jackie Robinson “If you have a chance to make life better for others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth.”- Roberto Clemente
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01-10-2015, 01:47 PM
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01-10-2015, 01:52 PM
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Brian- besides the obvious odds against it, what exactly are you seeing?
I want to learn how to detect these things. p.s.- I have not bought a lottery ticket in several months.
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01-10-2015, 02:04 PM
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That uniform corner rounding isnt a guarantee its a fake, but its a huge red flag.
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01-10-2015, 02:03 PM
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Oh, we're sure.
Two free bits of advice to those thinking of buying a 1916 Ruth. First, 95% or more of the fakes are blank-backed, mostly because the licensed reprints all came blank-backed and the ads (fonts) are very difficult to correctly reproduce. Second, buy one graded by PSA or SGC (probably Beckett too), even if just deemed authentic. I would estimate that more than 99 1/2% of the raw blank backs you see are reprints or outright counterfeits, and while PSA famously got this card wrong once, the grading companies know what to look for here and presumably will stand behind their work for even this very high dollar card. In short, the odds of you finding an authentic blank-backed Ruth, even a beater, are very small. Even if you stumble into an old antique store or estate sale where this truly is buried in some dust-covered book that looks to have been unopened for decades, remain highly skeptical, as this card has been reprinted so often that I expect the number of fakes to catch the number of '88 Donruss cards some day.
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