Fro Joy originals/reprints

[Leon]

Yes, 100% of colored Fro Joys are reprints/fakes. They should be black and white to be real. The colored ones are from the 70s on (from what I have read)....

[Butch7999]

Thank you, Leon!
Found a colorized set yesterday at a rural antique shop and pretty much figured it was a too-good-to-be-true discovery.
By the way, we rarely have occasion to say, but Net54 is a multiple-times-a-day stop for us and you do a tremendous job of running the place.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Thank you, Leon!
Found a colorized set yesterday at a rural antique shop and pretty much figured it was a too-good-to-be-true discovery.
By the way, we rarely have occasion to say, but Net54 is a multiple-times-a-day stop for us and you do a tremendous job of running the place.

Your welcome sir...and for games all respect goes back to your group. Take care and thanks again.

[BradH]

In the summer of 1998 I drove see my parents in central Indiana for a weekend and I stopped at a little out-of-the way antique shop. I found an uncut color sheet of Fro Joys and purchased it for $40, convinced I'd made a great find. The sheet "looked old" and was a bit tattered around the edges. Surely it had to BE OLD!

When I returned home from my trip I looked the sheet up on a new website I'd recently joined -- something known as "eBay." I quickly learned that my sheet was indeed a fake and that it could be had for about $5-6.

That sheet is framed and in a fairly prominent spot in my home office - a constant reminder to myself to always do my homework before purchasing an item I know nothing about. Interestingly, people always seem drawn to that sheet when they visit our home, and I like telling the story about it. I guess I've gotten more than $40 worth of entertainment value out of it!

I don't think I've been burned (at least not by my own ignorance) on a purchase since then.