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

[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...

[Vintagecatcher]

I'm guessing graphic arts at San Quentin State.


Patrick

[Yoda]

Although I try not to visit the memory too often, I once held a PSA 6 T227 Cobb, which for a while was the highest graded example around. It was by far the crown jewel of my collection at the time but is sadly gone consigned via Kevin Struss to Mastro 12 years ago, fetching about $5,000, as I recall.
This "example" is all wrong: faked creasing, washed out colors, and the clarity of a legitimate one's image; the faked is blurry - different pixels I would guess. I hope nobody bought it. Laser printers are adding a new level of sophistication to the villains counterfeiting tools as I found out the hard way when SGC rejected my Wolverine Cobb PC at the National. Just another cross to bear for those who have the huevos to acquire raw cards or PC's of top HOF'ers. I think I am out of that game, at least for a while.