As an experiment and learning experience....T227 Cobb

[pencil1974]

Here is mine as an example of a real one (all be it trimmed at the top).

Sorry I just wanted to show it off, like Leon this is one of my all time favorites.

[Sean]

By the way, this seller used the exact same language to sell a 1916 Babe Ruth rookie card for $100. He "believed" that one to be original as well.

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by Sean

By the way, this seller used the exact same language to sell a 1916 Babe Ruth rookie card for $100. He "believed" that one to be original as well.

That was my biggest tell right there!

[clydepepper]

The first red flag I saw was the (8) feedback total - I NEVER, EVER deal with those!

Good to know the issues' issues though- my first uneducated guess about the card itself was the size, not realized the T227 was so large.

[RCMcKenzie]

I'm trying to put together the T227 set, and so far as I know, the only reprints are of the baseball players. I've only seen the scans of the fakes on eBay, but they are not the most obvious reprints out there. I think we could all see them as fakes "in hand", but it's difficult to tell from the scans. You guys are right that the language in the description tells a lot. Wasn't there an article about Lipset not wanting to collect baseball cards after he saw a really good Wagner fake? I don't understand why people are paying $100,000 for a Kareem Abdul Jabbar basketball in "mint" with the technology that is out there...Rob

[Billy5858]

Centering which was mentioned along with generic description i.e. My son's college project blah blah......but a homogeneous brown fake aging that looks the exactly the same around the borders of the card..... You can just tell

[mechanicalman]

Originally Posted by Billy5858

Centering which was mentioned along with generic description i.e. My son's college project blah blah......but a homogeneous brown fake aging that looks the exactly the same around the borders of the card..... You can just tell

Ha! I've seen that "son's college project guy" a couple times. In what class and at what school would it make sense to practice the art of counterfeiting cards? Our future is in good hands...