Is This Ken Wall Lou Gherig cardboard add real

[toyman55]

How can you tell a reproduction from the real thing?
thanks in advance

[drcy]

Modern piece. All of them with metal eyelets are modern. They seem to always be beaten up and stained, which suggests deception is often involved.

I can tell you that the eyelet ones have a dot print matrix throughout the entire front, while originals would probably have areas of solid ink, such as at the bottom lettering areas. I've never seen a real one and it's possible there is no dot matrix anywhere in an original.

[perezfan]

Has a real/authentic one ever been verified? I thought these were all perhaps "fantasy" pieces, produced at a later date.

[mjkm90]

I was under the impression there never was a vintage cardboard ad and that these are all modern fantasy pieces.

[drcy]

I thought they were fantasy pieces, but didn't know if there were original related pieces out there.

[murphusa]

Fantasy only

[1880nonsports]

It's a known fantasy piece - regardless the one showing has many of the signs of not being old. I had never heard about the eyelets.