"Original" T206 Wagner with a BIN..........

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Posted By: Richard L.

Never ceases to amaze me!

http://tinyurl.com/6b7kpz

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Posted By: davidcycleback

If the seller really thought the value was $35,000 (as it says on the back of this well known reprint), the bin would be $35,000 not $6,000.

You don't have to be a Harvard logician to figure out that an original card doesn't describe itself in the past tense on the back. For the same reason that you don't have to be a Louvre curator to figure out that it isn't the original Mona Lisa printed on your coffee mug-- in particular when there's a Mona Lisa on each side. Helpful hint: none of DaVinci's paintings have handles.

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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

What?! I paid $8,000 for that mug!

Rick

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

See? Prices really are falling!

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

"an original card doesn't describe itself in the past tense on the back"

David,

You had me howling with this one! I don't know why--it just hit me in the right place!

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Posted By: davidcycleback

For those unfamiliar with this well known reprint, the back has a historical writeup of the card, including the then value ($35,000). It was part of a set of reprints of famous rare cards. With the past tense back writeups and back designs completely different than the originals, the reprints were obviously not intended to fool anyone into thinking they were genuine.

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Posted By: JT Burchfield

The auction has been removed because I offered him $3000 to take it down and sell the card off-eBay. I got a 90% discount from the true value!!

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

A farthing?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

A hint the seller is selling reprints is when he says there are only 50 known to exist and he has all 100 of them.