More Negro League Fake Photos on E-Bay

[Leon]

Thanks for the heads up guys!!

[Ladder7]

The Ruth flip says "Underwood News Serv." But not on the photo, that I can find.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

The Ruth flip says "Underwood News Serv." But not on the photo, that I can find.

The Ruth is a forgery. It was stabbed by Beckett that way probably because they were told a story or saw it in some archives labelled as such. They should not be suthenticating photos. The date stamps are fake. My guess is, the seller knows it will not pass Psa DNA as a type 1. thus, hides behind the Beckett slab and doesn't guarantee what he/she is selling. I have seen this listed by multiple eBay Ids trying to dump it. It is a fake/forgery/junk.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

The Ruth flip says "Underwood News Serv." But not on the photo, that I can find.

Lower left corner

copyright by
underwood & underwood N.Y.
? service co N.Y. distributors.


Just the standard thing they added while printing the originals and it will be part of any uncropped fake too.

To me the big tip off is the sepia tone. I don't think they were supplied to the press that way. And the distributors usually had a more readable "property of " or "copyright by" on the back.

It wouldn't be a bad photo to frame at say $10.

Steve B

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by steve B

Lower left corner

copyright by
underwood & underwood N.Y.
? service co N.Y. distributors.


Just the standard thing they added while printing the originals and it will be part of any uncropped fake too.

To me the big tip off is the sepia tone. I don't think they were supplied to the press that way. And the distributors usually had a more readable "property of " or "copyright by" on the back.

It wouldn't be a bad photo to frame at say $10.

Steve B

Good catch... The clarity of this is so horrendous, you can barely make it out.