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Posted By: leon

Hi Ted
I took the liberty of cropping your overprint above and also adding most of the sloppy looking one, so you can see. Even if that OH YOU FAN is legit it's at least sloppy looking. SO to answer your question....Yours is as real as any I have seen...plus you acquired it when there was 0 motive to make a fake one. I guess the best way for me to explain why I think the new OH YOU FAN overprint is not good is the same as when you look at a fake T206. You just get that gut feeling, after seeing so many, that what you are looking at just isn't quite right. When you add all of the pieces of the puzzle together you come out with a tale. To reiterate my thoughts from the long thread on why I have an issue with the new OH YOU FAN card...

1. It just doesn't look right.
2. It was being sold with an obvious fake E98 Old Put.
3. It is in black ink and no others are.
4. It is off center and no others I have seen are.
5. It originated in Ohio...(Don't laugh...that state is a hotbed for fraud.)
6. It has no provenance for more than a few months.

Once again yours looks exactly like all of the exemplars I have seen....I feel very confident yours is good...take care