Old Judge ID Help

[rhettyeakley]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but these are reprints.

In the 1970's there was a lady in California "Janet H." (I know her full name but don't want to throw that out in case she has family or something as it was a long time ago) that was producing these Old Judge cards and marketing them to the bigger collectors of the day via offers in the mail and she was ripping them off with these reprints. They measure smaller than the real deal are on the wrong paper stock and are very glossy on the surface and all the images are garbage. I have several that I got from a collection from one of the most prominent dealers in the NW. I even have the correspendence from the fraudster. She also made her own copies from other sets (Henry Johnson, HRK, etc) and was basically just a terrible person.

I can post scans of mine if anybody wants to see them. She made them either with blank or with these fraudulent "Dry Goods" backs. Every once in a while you will find these cards mixed in old time collections along with legitimate Old Judge cards.