1921 Herpolsheimers graded w/o mark

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by molenick

I hate to ask again, but can you please explain why someone finding a matching border specimen from 1930's-1940's means the cards are fake?

All it means is that the border did not originate in the 1970's.

It does not mean the border could not have existed earlier.

I understand that a set can be faked. Any set can be faked. I am just asking why you think this set is faked (besides the fact that someone else said they were fake).

Here's the math:

1930s-1940s minus "1921" equals upper teens to low twenties in years difference from when the design first existed and the argument for the card's year.

In other words, fake set