Ruth Fake?

[glynparson]

NOt even remotely close.

[drc]

One of the best was to educate yourself for online buying is simply to follow reputable auctions and look at photos of real cards. When you do that enough, most online reprints will be obvious. Not all, but a lot of reprints are obviously reprints at first look. The experienced eye is a sophisticated tool.

My story is an old time collector wrote me that he had been avidly collecting Goudeys for years, recently heard about fakes and was worried that he might unknowingly have some in his collection. I told him that if he'd been collecting genuine Goudeys for years-- enjoying looking at them, handling them, sorting them, etc-- he'd be the first to know if any were reprints.

[TyrusRCobb]

I'd like to thank all of you for your comments and advice. Clearly, I'm not a card guy. In the estate sale write-up there was a general list of items and the Ruth card was just kind of stuck there in the middle. You'd think such a card would be the center piece. Even with my untrained eye the card just didn't seem right. Now I'll send the guy an e-mail letting him know that he's got a fake.