Sweet Caporal Pack

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Sounds fishy to me. How does someone with 0 feedback come across something like this? My guess is that this person has done this before, and was suspended from eBay. Can't make out the factory, district, and state. Looks like NC. Not a T206 box. Amazes me to see boxes like this sell for crazy prices.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Scarce-1909-Sweet-Caporal-T206-UNOPENED-PACK-Wagner_W0QQitemZ5239199171QQcategoryZ86840QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

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Posted By: Chris Mc

There are no bids as of yet. The reserve is set over $800. I e-mailed and asked for the district and state of manufacture. We'll see what happens.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Did anyone hear back from this seller? Is it indeed NOT a T206 pack and if not, what is GAI doing grading this stuff?

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Posted By: leonl

Two years ago, at the National, I asked an employee of GAI why they made so many mistakes grading packs....His answer was something to the effect of "we're still learning". I shook my head and got off of the elevator...

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Posted By: scott ingold

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5237608664&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fws%2Fsearch %2FSaleSearch%3Fsofocus%3Dbs%26satitle%3D523760866 4%2B%2B%26sacat%3D-1%2526catref%253DC5%26from%3DR7%26nojspr%3Dy%26pfi d%3D0%26fsop%3D1%2526fsoo%253D1%26fcl%3D3%26frpp%3 D50%26fvi%3D1

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

I emailed and never got a response. 99 out of 100 times when boxes like this are listed, they lack crucial info to determine the authenticity of the item. Most of the time on purpose. Either the factory number isn't provided, or the tax stamp isn't shown, etc. These sellers know what they have, and purposely mislead buyers to sell their worthless boxes.

For someone like myself who has authentic boxes, the value goes down everytime scum put up these boxes. I wish sleezeBay would do something about this.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Scott: Wrong tax stamp. Definately no T206 in this box.

edited to add that this tax stamp is for the period of 1912-1918.

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Posted By: jackgoodman

For those of us not expert on tobacco boxes, is that what a NM box looks like? I would have thought it would be substanially cleaner looking for that grade. Thoughts?

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Posted By: canjond

Looks to me that a tax stamp was removed from the front and a new one added to the back?