Careful, BLATANT FAKE Walter Johnson

[danmckee]

I have reported this several times and received some disheartening emails from the seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251068420991...84.m1952.l2649

[3-2-count]

He's also selling a bad E90-1 Cobby. Sadly it already has a bid.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-T209-E-...item3a74d80dec

[danmckee]

Maybe with some board member's help we can get these 2 bogus auctions shut down from this joker.

[barrysloate]

A Walter Johnson with a Southern League back...come on, give us a break.

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by danmckee

Maybe with some board member's help we can get these 2 bogus auctions shut down from this joker.

I reported them both!

[kcohen]

I've reported both and I urge others to follow suit. The Cobb definitely looks bad to me. You handle enough of a particular issue and you can just tell. But if someone asked me for specifics as to why it's bad, I couldn't provide them. Could someone help me here?

[3-2-count]

Originally Posted by kcohen

I've reported both and I urge others to follow suit. The Cobb definitely looks bad to me. You handle enough of a particular issue and you can just tell. But if someone asked me for specifics as to why it's bad, I couldn't provide them. Could someone help me here?

The colors are off including the white border shade surrounding his image, but more noticeable is the premature aging the card has been given.
I've owned a lot of E90-1's and have never seen those stress marks throughout like this fake displays.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by kcohen

I've reported both and I urge others to follow suit. The Cobb definitely looks bad to me. You handle enough of a particular issue and you can just tell. But if someone asked me for specifics as to why it's bad, I couldn't provide them. Could someone help me here?

OK....here is the "specifics" why the E90 Cobb is a REPRINT....check out the upper left area on the back of this card and you will find evidence of paper loss.

E90's were reprinted some years back. And, in that upper left area on the backs of all these reprints is the letter "C". Therefore, and I've seen this before on
ebay, the seller will scrape off the "C"....leaving a small area of paper loss.

It's as easy as that to detect these reprints. Furthermore, when you compare an original E90-1 card to these reprints, you will see that the reprint is a tad
smaller than a real E90.

Otherwise, some of the fronts of these reprints that I have seen are pretty good replicas. If I was at home I'd scan a Cy Young I have to illustrate what I've
described here.


TED Z