Fake Cobb Ghost

[PhillipAbbott79]

Can someone confirm if this is fake?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-t206-Ty...QAAOSwOdpX1sbT

I think it is for 2 reasons at a minimum:

1. The image is how it would be if you were looking at the front of a Cobb card. I would think it should be backwards.

2. It transferred 2 colors? Don't they get printed 1 at a time? It would seem unusual for it to transfer 2 colors.

Phil

[njdunkin1]

I found it tricky as well. The Ames appears totally normal without any sort of color shift or missing ink. I think you are on to something.

[bravos4evr]

the only way that could turn out that way would be for the Cobb to have been printed on the back and then the sweet caporal layer added then printed, which doesn't make much sense. even if the Cobb had been mislaid on top of the card while wet after printing it would be a mirror image.

[T205 GB]

Stay away from it. I seen that card several years ago at the National and was buying it only if SGC would authenticated it. It is fake!

Just wanted to add it used to reside in a PSA holder

[swarmee]

When you say it was in a PSA holder, it seems like you're insinuating the card is a fake (counterfeit, made after 1915) and that PSA graded and encapsulated it anyways. What was the grade? Is the card actually counterfeit, or just the Cobb image? If PSA gave it a 3(MK), or even an AUTH, then they probably did the right thing.
Can you elaborate?

[bravos4evr]

Originally Posted by swarmee

When you say it was in a PSA holder, it seems like you're insinuating the card is a fake (counterfeit, made after 1915) and that PSA graded and encapsulated it anyways. What was the grade? Is the card actually counterfeit, or just the Cobb image? If PSA gave it a 3(MK), or even an AUTH, then they probably did the right thing.
Can you elaborate?

that's a good question, the card can be authentic, it can be a real T206 Ames Sweet Caporal that some funny bidness has happened on the back to. how do you judge such a thing?

[Leon]

The card itself looks real? but even if the ghost image were real it's not a very nice one..

Originally Posted by PhillipAbbott79

Can someone confirm if this is fake?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-t206-Ty...QAAOSwOdpX1sbT

I think it is for 2 reasons at a minimum:

1. The image is how it would be if you were looking at the front of a Cobb card. I would think it should be backwards.

2. It transferred 2 colors? Don't they get printed 1 at a time? It would seem unusual for it to transfer 2 colors.

Phil