Cobb Strip Card questions

[NiceDocter]

Hope Im wrong.... looking forward to others opinions.

[The Detroit Collector]

Hi Bob,
In my unprofessional opinion, the strip card looks like a reprint. The actual strip card is called a 1920 W516. The reason I assume its a reprint is because the Cobb coloring looks all black. The actual strip card has more color to Cobb himself.

I would also unfortunately say the Auto is fake. My only reasoning is Strip cards are paper thin and extremely easy to rip. I just can't see an autograph being real without some sort of damage to the card.

[brianp-beme]

And to further pin down its identification as a W516 card, if it is indeed real it would be considered to be from the W516-1-1 set, due to its hand lettering of the script and normal (not reversed) image/IFC copyright, and the fact that it is numbered as '6'.

Brian

[docpatlv]

My first thought was that it looked authentic, as mentioned before, the ink transfer on back usually not seen on reprints. It looks like you can even see some of the letters of DETROIT on the one side. Fake auto, but I thought the card looked good.

[B O'Brien]

Thanks for the help y’all! Sounds like I’m about 50\50!

I assume that if one of you all strip card folks could actually hold it, it would give you a better idea?

Thanks again,
Bob

[brianp-beme]

I found this W516-1-1 (a SGC that I cropped the living SGC-ness out of it) that was posted on here in another thread, and in my eyes it shares a lot of the same attributes as the OP's card in question, just with good background color registration, instead of an offset of the red color.

Brian

[The Detroit Collector]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I found this W516-1-1 (a SGC that I cropped out the SGC-ness out of it) that was posted on here in another thread, and in my eyes it shares a lot of the same attributes as the OP's card in question, just with good background color registration, instead of an offset of the red color.

Brian

Maybe its the lighting, but I see no skin color on Cobbs face in the OP. The strip cards have skin coloring.

[B O'Brien]

Very helpful! I was thinking that if it was fake, the color would have lined up a little better. I also wouldn’t have thought they would have been faking strip cards, pre mid 90’s but I guess a lot of things got knocked off in the rise of cards in the 80’s.

Got a little closer face shot here.

Thanks,
Bob

[brianp-beme]

With that close up you can see the face and arm coloration better.

Brian

[NiceDocter]

The $20 one Ive had for 40 years. The other I got in a 40 card collection from New York via Canada that had been in one mans possession for over 50 years when he bought them from the original owner that had them for 50 years. I guess the only way to find out is send it in and see what happens. BTW I think 2 other red flags for me are the perfect cuts and the maybe artificially aged back ( can be done with tea or coffee ). Call me a skeptic....