What Fakes have you been duped by?

[Mountaineer1999]

Reading through all of these begs the question, how many of us are holding cards that are fakes and we don't know it? Now I have a 1939 Play Ball Earl Averill that I'm worried about.

[7nohitter]

Great topic.

Luckily for me I bought a '48 Ruth the other day....the seller listed it as a reprint...what a fool! I scooped it up for $2.99

[Sean]

Not a fake, but I bought this Cobb in 2002 when I began collecting. It was described by the seller as "EX Condition."

I sent it for grading in 2009, and it came back trimmed... which is obvious to me now.


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[ZernialFan]

Bought many SCD Red Label graded a number of years ago. Very successful cracking out and sending to SGC or PSA. Saw a Babe Ruth Candy card in a SCD Red Label and bought it. Received it and held on to it for awhile and had not sent in to either grading company. A local friend that was on Net54 asked to see the card. Brought it to him one day and he said it did not look right. After he fooled around with the holder, it came apart. The card had been switched and the holder put back together.

[Eric72]

I have only been duped once, that I know of. As a much, much younger man, I bought a 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly that turned out to be counterfeit.

Lesson learned. I am still pissed about it and still have the fake...it serves as a constant reminder to be on the lookout.

Best regards,

Eric

[Jeffrompa]

I wouldn't say I was duped but took a chance on a T3 Cobb in a frame was worth a shot but turned out to be a magazine piece . That's life .

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Jeffrompa

I wouldn't say I was duped but took a chance on a T3 Cobb in a frame was worth a shot but turned out to be a magazine piece . That's life .

Did you ever feel you were framed?

ps...might as well add, if we take into account altered cards, bought as good, and not only fake cards, then my number goes up a few. I was only counting the fake ones...

[EGreenwood]

I got duped on a W551 Sisler and Stengel several years ago.

Erik