Is this authentic?

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Posted By: Mark

Ty Cobb T206 for < $100...

does this look authentic?

http://cgi.ebay.com/T206-TY-COBB-BAT-OFF-SHOULDER-CYCLE-460_W0QQitemZ290163982211QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item2 90163982211

Thanks,

Mark

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Posted By: T206Collector

...wrong thread.

Second of all, if you have to ask about this card then you shouldn't be bidding on baseball cards on ebay. The seller called it a Cycle back and shows a Sweet Caporal back; the words Cobb, Detroit have been written in AFTER the card was scanned.

A terrible fake and anyone who falls for this one deserves to own it.

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Posted By: JimB

No it is not.
THis should be posted on the main board, not the bst.
JimB

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Posted By: Mark

I am new to the board which explains why I posted to wrong section.

Mark

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Posted By: T206Collector

...welcome!

But if you are new to buying T206 cards, you should not be buying raw Cobb cards on ebay. That is the worst place to start. Buy a few authentic beaters to get an idea of what the real thing looks like. Then you won't be so easily fooled.

Good luck!

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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

Hi, I've had this on my watch list for a few days. I kept it on my watch list to see how much it sell for. I was hoping that it would be removed.

This is a poor quality fake and I feel sorry for the person who bid $78 for it.

Rick

(P.S.) Buy a nice PSA 1 or an SGC 20 to get you started with T206 Cobb's, but don't bid against me!

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Posted By: JimB

Mark,
No worries. Welcome to the board.
JimB

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Posted By: davidcycleback

It's a reasonable question to post, and beginner's shouldn't hesitate to post such authenticity questions.

The edge "toning" on this card is so bad it's laughable. Baseball cards done naturally tone like that. Toning due to age is usually even throughout the card. It doesn't look like it was dipped or painted on in varnish. It's true genuine cards can get stained by terpentine or varnish or a spilled cup of coffee. However, the only realistic way the card can get staining like this is for someone to carefully dip all four edges into a staining liquid-- and that would be no accident. Drop and flip and skip and cartwheel 200 cards in a bucket of varnish, and you won't get one with staining like this.

Then, of course, the question is why would someone carefully dip a genuine T206 Ty Cobb in varnish so as to darkly stain just the four edges? The answer is, no one would. Even in 1912, when the card was worth nothing, a rascally 7 year old boy wouldn't carefully stain all four edges like this. He wouldn't even think to do it, much less see a point in doing it.

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Posted By: Joe Jones

It looks like the seller used the same item Title from my auction of a Ty Cobb Batt off with a 460 cycle back.