is this real or fake T206 Taylor?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by DeafSports

Seller finally replied and cancelled this order, whew. I hope he wont re-list it without saying it's a reprint card.

Thank you all for making me not buying and think it might be printed 100+ years ago

This board is very good at helping out in many of these instances. Glad it got worked out.

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[dougscats]

Haven't read the Forum in a few days, but I actually did my duty when I saw this card on 1/28/18 and contacted the seller to tell him it was a replica:


New message from: jmaccollectibles (1,156Red Star)
Well was not obvious to me. But thank you for taking the time to point out. Thanks again
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This card appears to be an obvious reprint. It has no factory number on the bottom back, which all genuine T206's do.

Glad he finally refunded your money.

[T206Collector]

I like that the card has the correct dot-matrix printing on the front — you don’t see that on reprints — and I don’t think the lettering on the name and team are black, or that the Piedmont isn’t blue (it’s a poorly lit photo). The missing factory designation looks like it came away when this card was soaked off of a scrap book, which the frayed edges and corners suggest happened.

But what I can’t explain is the blue shadowing on the bottom front, which disappears and shows up on the reverse on the wrong side. That’s really weird.

Either way I’d prefer a better picture or scan, but I would wait to have the card in hand before crying fraud.

Just my two cents...

[Leon]

But the front just looks off. Many times that is a bad sign.

Originally Posted by T206Collector

I like that the card has the correct dot-matrix printing on the front — you don’t see that on reprints — and I don’t think the lettering on the name and team are black, or that the Piedmont isn’t blue (it’s a poorly lit photo). The missing factory designation looks like it came away when this card was soaked off of a scrap book, which the frayed edges and corners suggest happened.

But what I can’t explain is the blue shadowing on the bottom front, which disappears and shows up on the reverse on the wrong side. That’s really weird.

Either way I’d prefer a better picture or scan, but I would wait to have the card in hand before crying fraud.

Just my two cents...