1941 Original Joe DiMaggio Barbarino's Barber Shop Baseball Card ~ Brooklyn

[Leon]

Originally Posted by KC Doughboy

Leon, can you provide me with details on this card and please let me know where I can see the original(s) you are comparing it to?

There are no originals as it's a fake (fantasy), not a reprint. Fake as a 3 dollar bill with artificial aging and all. It's a piece of crap that really should be destroyed, imo. When you have collected long enough you just know by the looks of some cards. I guarantee almost no one, who is experienced in pre-war, will ever think that card is remotely close to real.

One easy thing to see is that the printing on back doesn't have the crack marks that the other parts have. If it were real it (usually) would.....The thing just reeks fake....

[Wite3]

What screams fake is the $75 price tag...

[Brian Van Horn]

Eric,

In all due respect, the card is a fake. It is in the same vein as the following card which is listed as a reprint, but is also a fake:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1927-SPANKYS...item461d000b8f

[KC Doughboy]

Brian, thanks for providing additional information. All I have done is try to be totally open and honest about the card from the very start and disclose everything I knew to the best of my ability.
I asked numerous people to provide information on it, but it seems people want to scream "FAKE" but not offer any more.

[hangman62]

Here's another one -

[aelefson]

Eric-
Aside from what Leon said (the printing is exactly how other fantasy cards look. True vintage cards would show more honest wear in this condition), the fact that this card is only sold as a reprint on-line, or for too little money, means that everyone considers it a fantasy card. Your price is also very suspicious. A true early 1940s card on DiMaggio would sell for a few hundred dollars at the minimum.
Initially, I thought it was a fake or fantasy as well. However, I recommended that you post a thread on the main forum about it, just to be sure. I think the above responses should completely answer your questions.
As we discussed via PM, I hope you can get your money back, but if not, I am with Leon on destroying the item.

Alan Elefson

[Leon]

And I should add this was not supposed to be an attack on the original poster, on my part. But it irritates me that that kind of card is being sold on this board when it is so obviously bogus. It, and their ilk, are the true definitions of fantasy cards (fake cards). But unless the OP (hi Eric) continues to try to sell it as anything other than fake then it's no big issue. It is what it is though..