Weighing your cards

[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.

[hcv123]

They use a 1-10 scale.

[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.

[bnorth]

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 will need something that weights items smaller than a gram. I tried my mail scale but the cards are way too light.

I just measured the thickness of a real card 17.5 thousandth of an inch. Then I measured a counterfeit that is good enough that PSA has graded at least a half dozen of this exact card. It measures 15 thousandth of an inch think. If you handle a lot of cards you will easily notice the difference in thickness of the 2 cards.

[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.