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Posted By: fkw

Keith's Stock card is a good example.
If you have good eyes, and look closely at one in person you will see very small chips to the surface layer along the edges of some of these cards just like any midgrade E121 card, it would be very tough to find that E121 type of card stock with that smooth porcelain like surface both front and back. Even the fake Kendig cards have a slightly rough matt finish like surface (looks like spray shellac) thats totally different from the E121s.

Also, the caption on front (for each of the 68 cards) would then have to be painstakenly duplicated exactly....... with the exact same font, spacing of letters, etc. The faker would NOT be able to rescreen the whole card because there would then be print dots in the border. He would have to crop the photo part of the card then add the thin black line around the photo and then try to recreate the caption, and thats just the front of the card.

And why not make 20 Ruth's and even a few J.Jackson cards (Jackson is found in the Holsum set).