Real or Fake Post Cereal Vintage Cards

[HOF Yankees]

Does anyone have any tips on how to tell if the 1960s era Post Cereal Baseball cards are real or fake??

What should I be looking out for if buying them raw/ungraded

Any info will help, thanks

[swarmee]

Can you post some pictures if you think you have some counterfeits being offered to you? I think the card stock, perforations, paper pasted over cardboard, etc mean very few counterfeits are produced of these cards. I would figure only Mantles would be faked.

[Rich Klein]

In 1961, you could order most of those cards from the factory and they come perforated and the stock is much thinner than those cut from a box.

If that's what you are worried about, then that is your answer.

As to Post Cereal fakes, I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about them but I suppose anythng is possible

Regards
Rich

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Can you post some pictures if you think you have some counterfeits being offered to you? I think the card stock, perforations, paper pasted over cardboard, etc mean very few counterfeits are produced of these cards. I would figure only Mantles would be faked.

A Mantle is the only fake I have seen. Not sure what it came from but the "card" was cut from what looked like a magazine advertisement glued to a piece of cereal box cardboard. Because it was really printed on a press it looked real until in hand.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

As to Post Cereal fakes, I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about them but I suppose anythng is possible

Regards
Rich

That's what I was thinking too Rich. I don't remember ever hearing about or seeing a fake Post Cereal card. But maybe they were so good we didn't realize they were fake?

[gonefishin]

I don't think I have ever run across a fake post cereal card. I often see where someone is selling a Jello version as a Post or a perforated card as hand cut. However, a counterfeit I don't remember ever coming across.

This thread needs a photo. Here is a card I personally cut from the box back in the day. I had absolutely no clue that one day I would discover it was one of the rarest Post cards out there.

[HOF Yankees]

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original

with those two Joe Torre's well out of all of the Post Cereal cards they both look very much original what would be the difference

both are 1962's are they supposed to have clear images with bold text

[HOF Yankees]

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[darkhorse9]

There is a guy on ebay that list reprinted Post cards. He does identify them as such listingbtgem as 2022 -1963 Post cereal card.


That doesn't mean a buyer might not try to resell them as authentic.

[swarmee]

Ah, it looks like a bad photocopy printout. You should be able to tell by the feel and the white card stock. Looks like the print is also smeared and wider than the original.