Have Collins McCarthy or Boston Store cards been reprinted?

[JamesGallo]

I have several black back single all are hand cut.

Those strips just don't look right. All the cards are not uniform and the edges of the images all all different. My gut says they are some type of repro or fake item, but hard to say from the poor pictures.

I am 99% sure all my hand cut cards are typical stock with glossy fronts.

James G

[sb1]

Agreed on all points, here is a better shot taken with the scanner of a partial strip.

These are a cream/light tan not as white as the picture above makes them look.

That being said, where does one get cards without numbers or a sheet to make the reprints/reproductions from.

After more thought and conversation's I am still unsure of their origin.

[JamesGallo]

you can easily cut off or crop out the numbers that is not a hard thing to do. and you can certainly just make a sheet by scanning and printing these.

Even back in the day you can do magic with printing.

James G

[nolemmings]

I wanted to keep this on the front page in case any other e135 collectors have not seen it. I understand all that was posted, but find a couple of things interesting. First, I too have not seen any strips or panels of uncut E135s, real or otherwise, and find it odd that someone reproducing it would choose to eliminate the card numbers. Second, at least two cards are very slightly different in their presentation around the nameplate. Below are scans of “real” e135s--Milton Stock and Dick Rudolph. Note how the bottom line in the frame that surrounds the photo is interrupted or overlapped right above Stock’s entire name and Rudolph’s surname. This differs from what is shown in Scott’s cards.

So how would someone reproducing/counterfeiting the cards “correct” or change them in this way, and for that matter, why? As for the authentic e135s, we know that there were two printings of the set, since changes were made to cards for Judge, Morgan and Russell. Maybe the scans I just showed are of one printing and Scott’s of the other, in which case his still could be repros or fakes. I would guess that Scott’s cards are from the latter printing, since I believe his Reb Russell card shown is a corrected photo of a follow-through pose believed to really depict Mel Wolfgang. This would also account for the Stock and Rudolph cards having their frame lines changed. I realize this does not resolve the issue of whether the cards are period or fake, and it is probably wise to go with the gut and say no, but I still find pieces like these interesting.