Honus Wagner Cabinet on ebay

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I know we're not supposed to out ebay auctions, but just wanted to let people know that this is a questionable item that has been discussed here in the past.

http://tinyurl.com/2bode6

Different seller ID this time...is it the same guy???

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Posted By: David Smith

"This Piece is 100% Guartanteed To PSA As Vintage As Described Or I Will Refund Purchase Price Round Trip Shipping As Well As Any Fees Associated With Grading".

OK, so the seller knows about grading services and is willing to refund ALL of this IF the card doesn't grade. Then WHY doesn't the seller get the card graded themselves and make the extra money that that might bring in and NOT have to go thru the hassle of refunding money??

Something seems fishy to me.

David

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Posted By: davidcycleback

There are a variety of MAJOR problems with the item, including a real photo shouldn't have a line pattern like that when scanned. Moire and line patterns happen when scanning images with dots, like a newspaper picture. Photographs have no dots in the pattern and shouldn't produce such a pattern. The mount is 1800s-style not 1900s (1900s mounts were rarely white and usually had a plethora of embossments, plus the stamp on back resembles an 1800s stamp). Seller says the negative was hand signed, but, if true (and one could indeed write on the negative), that would mean the signature would be in the photographic print only. It wouldn't appear on the mount-- and certainly not overlapping the photo and mount. Unlike photo paper, the cardboard mount of a cabinet card has no photochemicals on it (it's just a piece of cardboard), making it physically impossible to print a photographic signature on the cardboard. There are genuine celebrity cabinet cards with faux signatures stamped on. However, these were placed on the mount (as part of the manufacturing process), so will only appear on the mount and not on the photographic image.

(Below is a stamped on faux 'Yours Truly' signature on a 1890s cabinet card of boxer John L Sullivan. Notice the stamp is on the mount only-- it's probably embossed in. This Sullivan cabinet probably was given out or sold to fans.)