Help verifying card's authenticity

[NiceDocter]

Haha now since initially said it looked good all the scammers will be contacting me to buy their fake cards LOL . I agree with all the comments and it’s almost certainly a fake based on all that’s been said. I guess I was swayed by the OP saying he’d had it for a long time. Thanks to all for reminding me to “look before you leap” and often DONT LEAP AT ALL lol.

[FrankWakefield]

black light.........


I like to think about a commercial I recall years ago. BASF. It was and is a German company. The ad had a line in it, "we don't make the products you use, we make the products you use better"

One group of such is brighteners. After WW II, paper manufactures started making paper with brighteners. Laundry detergents have them, nowadays. If you illuminate modern paper (after about 1947-48) it most likely has brighteners in it, and it will fluoresce. If you illuminate a page from a magazine from the 1920's, it won't fluoresce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_brightener

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

Haha now since initially said it looked good all the scammers will be contacting me to buy their fake cards LOL . I agree with all the comments and it’s almost certainly a fake based on all that’s been said. I guess I was swayed by the OP saying he’d had it for a long time. Thanks to all for reminding me to “look before you leap” and often DONT LEAP AT ALL lol.

My initial impression was that it wasn't good. But when you answered so quickly that it looked good, and since I don't collect that issue, I just figured I was wrong. I chose not to leap.

[Zach Wheat]

The "N" in Nat'l does not align with the shadow in the pants leg when comparing both cards. Ever since studying 1991 Topps Desert Shield cards ad nauseum, this is one item that sticks out.

[FrankWakefield]

uv light... brighteners...


Here's a BASF commercial. That's the voice I recall, but I think the language I recall may have been from an earlier commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQuMr45xd4

If you're gonna be spending REAL money on old cards, spend the money on old cards that are REAL. You gotta have a black light.