Fro Joy originals/reprints

[Butch7999]

Hi there -- please pardon a thunderingly ignorant question, but pre-war cards (except game cards) are (obviously) not our area of expertise.
We researched old threads here and were able to infer, but unable to find stated categorically, that the fully colorized editions of the
1928 Fro Joy cards are invariably post-1970s reprints/fakes, and that the actual 1928 originals are exclusively black-&-white.
Is that invariably and absolutely correct?
Thanks very much for any answers.

[Leon]

Yes, 100% of colored Fro Joys are reprints/fakes. They should be black and white to be real. The colored ones are from the 70s on (from what I have read)....

[Butch7999]

Thank you, Leon!
Found a colorized set yesterday at a rural antique shop and pretty much figured it was a too-good-to-be-true discovery.
By the way, we rarely have occasion to say, but Net54 is a multiple-times-a-day stop for us and you do a tremendous job of running the place.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Thank you, Leon!
Found a colorized set yesterday at a rural antique shop and pretty much figured it was a too-good-to-be-true discovery.
By the way, we rarely have occasion to say, but Net54 is a multiple-times-a-day stop for us and you do a tremendous job of running the place.

Your welcome sir...and for games all respect goes back to your group. Take care and thanks again.

[BradH]

In the summer of 1998 I drove see my parents in central Indiana for a weekend and I stopped at a little out-of-the way antique shop. I found an uncut color sheet of Fro Joys and purchased it for $40, convinced I'd made a great find. The sheet "looked old" and was a bit tattered around the edges. Surely it had to BE OLD!

When I returned home from my trip I looked the sheet up on a new website I'd recently joined -- something known as "eBay." I quickly learned that my sheet was indeed a fake and that it could be had for about $5-6.

That sheet is framed and in a fairly prominent spot in my home office - a constant reminder to myself to always do my homework before purchasing an item I know nothing about. Interestingly, people always seem drawn to that sheet when they visit our home, and I like telling the story about it. I guess I've gotten more than $40 worth of entertainment value out of it!

I don't think I've been burned (at least not by my own ignorance) on a purchase since then.