Fake Lajoie slabbed by PSA, Ebay seller: vintage_card_shop

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Originally Posted by Balticfox

Well clearly it wasn't obvious to PSA either and they're in the card grading/authentication business.



Well it's also pretty obvious to any collector that reprints can/will eventually be passed off as the real thing. Therefore why couldn't a pro such as Larry Fritsch figure that out before reprinting the darn thing? Was he just trying to make a quick buck the consequences be damned? Is that what you're saying?



A customer(me) from circa 2000 who had no interest in any reprints of pre-WWI cards that might or might not have been in Fritsch's catalog at the time certainly could.



Excuse me but I wasn't positing any "conspiracy". I was just guessing that the card could simply have originated from a knock off printing back in the day. You're the one suggesting that a conspiracy to deceive by removing a reprint stamp and subjecting the card to aging is in evidence here.

The question now is whether PSA will compensate anyone who relied on their "authentication" for any losses they may have sustained purchasing this piece of crap slab.

What I am saying is what I said, in this transcript where no word is left out. If you can read, you will notice that nobody has accused Fritsch of any wrong doing whatsoever, much less creating fakes with an intent for other people to appropriate them to commit fraud. He made clearly marked reprints with other differences that are difficult to mistake for the real thing or the product of a 1916 Phillipines counterfeiting or knockoff ring ripping off worthless American Sporting News pictures (can common sense please enter the equation?). The Fritsch company has been selling them since the 1980's. This exact card has been in their catalog for decades. If this is shocking information to you, oh well.