1933 Goudey card: Real or not?

[Boccabella]

Thoughts?

[CMIZ5290]

Real- notice how at the top of the card there is actually a little yellow color coming from the bat that bleeds into the border. Not sure that i have seen a reprint with that characteristic.

[fkw]

its a picture of a card. look at the front, its a card with another plain white border around it. The back was printed onto this picture, notice the back borders are way way too wide.

[CMIZ5290]

I thought the other white was just a back drop for the card for pic purposes

[Ladder7]

The characteristics look decent enough.

One thing... Is the card printed on, or placed atop the sheet of white paper? I ask, Cuz the back photo isn't.

[CMIZ5290]

Frank- good pick up on the back of the card

[fkw]

its a strange reprint, never seen one like.

[terjung]

Originally Posted by fkw

its a picture of a card. look at the front, its a card with another plain white border around it. The back was printed onto this picture, notice the back borders are way way too wide.

Frank nailed it. Looking at the image itself (without the white border), it looked promising. Given that it is on white paper, it's bogus.

[Matt]

I seemingly can't stress enough how risky it is buy raw Goudeys of Ruth & Gehrig. There are more different kinds of counterfeits of these cards then perhaps any other card out there and for some of them it is incredibly difficult to tell from a scan.
I've been collecting for many years, have a high threshold for taking risks when it comes to buying cards and I would never buy a raw Goudey Ruth or Gehrig from someone I didn't know over the internet.

[deadballera]

Matt...very well said.

Only buy raw Ruth's or Gehrig's from reputable sellers.

[Fred]

Franks got a good point about the back border of the card - there is just too much border side to side and top to bottom.

[egbeachley]

And it's missing the red bleed-through.