1914 CJ Mathewson Receives a Bath Courtesy of Legendary

[Peter_Spaeth]

I recently purchased a CJ card and when I went back to the original Legendary auction the scan was much brighter than the card. They clearly should make an adjustment to more accurately depict the card being auctioned, in my opinion. As we have seen from certain ebay auctions discussed here previously, scans do have the potential to mislead.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I recently purchased a CJ card and when I went back to the original Legendary auction the scan was much brighter than the card. They clearly should make an adjustment to more accurately depict the card being auctioned, in my opinion. As we have seen from certain ebay auctions discussed here previously, scans do have the potential to mislead.

And by making the scan brighter it causes stains and wrinkles to disappear or lessen. I wonder why the "scanner settings" aren't inadvertently set to make the cards darker, the stains more pronounced? Gee whiz!

Funny how the victims of this fraud -- the bidders -- can trust their eyes not to lie to them but the shills who make money from the auctioneers (Bob) have eyes that see something else.

[Peter_Spaeth]

At least the card looks real. I would rather have an altered scan of a real card than a real scan of an altered card. Plenty of the latter to go around. Of course when you have an altered scan of an altered card, you have hit the jackpot, and that's when world records get set.