Weighing your cards

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

Was wondering if PSA, & others weighed the cards as one of the steps of authenticating?

I can guarantee PSA doesn't or their scale doesn't work.

Maybe the TPG's have discovered the density of each baseball card thru the years and are keeping it a secret on Oak Island

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by rgpete

Maybe the TPG's have discovered the density of each baseball card thru the years and are keeping it a secret on Oak Island

Damn, I was wondering what the Lagina brothers were looking for.

[Harliduck]

Post war collector, and I bet many will agree with me...but 50's and 60's topps have a certain smell...can't replicate that smell...

[drcy]

I think weight is a minor thing to look for, but it could be and has been done before. An SCD book on fakes talked about weighs. But you'd have to have to have an accurate and precise scale.

I think if some did an accurate weighing of authentic cards and made the data available, that would be useful.

Card thickness is also a biggie.

[toledo_mudhen]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Post war collector, and I bet many will agree with me...but 50's and 60's topps have a certain smell...can't replicate that smell...

+1

Yep - that is correct

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Post war collector, and I bet many will agree with me...but 50's and 60's topps have a certain smell...can't replicate that smell...

Originally Posted by toledo_mudhen

+1

Yep - that is correct

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but that smell is super easy to put into counterfeit cards.

[Bigdaddy]

Weighing cards is the best way to sell junk-era stockpiles - sell 'em by the pound.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Post war collector, and I bet many will agree with me...but 50's and 60's topps have a certain smell...can't replicate that smell...

cardboard and bubble gum. Like the old ballparks, that inimitable combination of spilled beer, cigar stubs, popcorn, peanut shells, mustard, and a hundred other things pressed into the concrete walkways and aged for generations. Nothing else like it in the world.

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Damn, I was wondering what the Lagina brothers were looking for.

Keep watching.... they're almost there! By season 38 in 2052, they'll find more metal pins!!!!! Amazing television!!

Oh History Channel, what would we do without your informative and questionably-sane shows about nutbag UFO "theorists", eating moldy old food and "hunting" for a German dictator dead for three quarters of a century.

[chalupacollects]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Damn, I was wondering what the Lagina brothers were looking for.

They are looking for long lost rulers for the TPG's...

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I can guarantee PSA doesn't or their scale doesn't work.

My wife uses the same brand of scale, apparently.

[egbeachley]

Wouldn’t older cards expand in thickness and weigh more in humid environments?

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

Wouldn’t older cards expand in thickness and weigh more in humid environments?

I would imagine so, just like wood (from which paper is made).

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

I would imagine so, just like wood (from which paper is made).

Wood...

Sir Bedevere : There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.

Peasant 1 : Are there? Oh well, tell us.

Sir Bedevere : Tell me. What do you do with witches?

Peasant 1 : Burn them.

Sir Bedevere : And what do you burn, apart from witches?

Peasant 1 : More witches.

Peasant 2 : Wood.

Sir Bedevere : Good. Now, why do witches burn?

Peasant 3 : ...because they're made of... wood?

Sir Bedevere : Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?

Peasant 1 : Build a bridge out of her.

Sir Bedevere : But can you not also build bridges out of stone?

Peasant 1 : Oh yeah.

Sir Bedevere : Does wood sink in water?

Peasant 1 : No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!

Sir Bedevere : No, no. What else floats in water?

Peasant 1 : Bread.

Peasant 2 : Apples.

Peasant 3 : Very small rocks.

Peasant 1 : Cider.

Peasant 2 : Gravy.

Peasant 3 : Cherries.

Peasant 1 : Mud.

Peasant 2 : Churches.

Peasant 3 : Lead! Lead!

King Arthur : A Duck.

Sir Bedevere : ...Exactly. So, logically...

Peasant 1 : If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.

Sir Bedevere : And therefore...

Peasant 2 : ...A witch!

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

Let's try this out. If you have a real and fake card of someone that are the same card, weigh them. Let us know what the results were. Weigh in grams.

Sorry I don't have any fakes to try this myself.

You really need to weigh lots of real and several fake cards and see if the fake cards fall within or outside of the variances that you would see from a stack of real cards.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

Wouldn’t older cards expand in thickness and weigh more in humid environments?

Not in my experience. I haven't owned a ton of T cards like several on here. I have easily owned 100 T206s and 100 T210's and every one I have measured(a lot) are all within 1 thousandth of an inch.

Now older cards that have been wet/soaked and not dried properly will be a little thicker.

[rdwyer]

My thinking is the card stock on fake cards are heavier than real. (In grams). Can someone test this out, and let us know the results. I have a digital scale that does grams, carats, etc. Only have real T-cards, so I cannot test.

[bnorth]

Here is a pic of cards that are the same player from the same year. One of them is counterfeit.

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Here is a pic of cards that are the same player from the same year. One of them is counterfeit.

#7, starting on the left. What year are those cards?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Not in my experience. I haven't owned a ton of T cards like several on here. I have easily owned 100 T206s and 100 T210's and every one I have measured(a lot) are all within 1 thousandth of an inch.

Now older cards that have been wet/soaked and not dried properly will be a little thicker.

That's what I found when I measured several of mine. They were very consistent, and pretty much the same on humid days as they were on dry days.