Will history be repeated?

[drc]

Okay, okay. I'll quit with the jokes and let the thread return to its sober intent.

[Potomac Yank]

Adam, I welcome you, but I'm going to make a digger out of you.
If you're a collector, you might find digging, as the FUN part of the hobby.

If you're a flipper ... you'll find it boring.

This forum has an excellent search engine.
Go to it, and write in __ Dr Koos __ in the Posts options, and then do the Threads option. ... If you want to learn about a subject, you would have to read all you can about the subject.

At the 1990 Texas National, many of the dealers were alerted.
They listened, but they didn't stand together.

Because of that ... here are a few of the later results .....

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...highlight=Koos

[FrankWakefield]

I remember the Koos Caper.

When did Chan start that site?

2009 - 1990 = 19 years. I'm guessing Chan started his site a couple of years sooner. So if crap like this surfaced every 17 years, then it is like cicada's, or a comet...

[Peter_Spaeth]

I am far more concerned about altered mainsteam cards than an occasional forgery of some extreme rarity.

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I am far more concerned about altered mainsteam cards than an occasional forgery of some extreme rarity.

Hello Peter,

Would you care to elaborate just a little bit more about your concern?
Thank you.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Just my opinion, of course, but I believe there are many skilled people out there taking creases and wrinkles out of cards, flattening corners, and even trimming and that a not insubstantial percentage of these cards are, for whatever reason (beyond the subject of this post), getting past the major grading services. I think this happens across the board and is not confined to higher grade cards.

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Just my opinion, of course, but I believe there are many skilled people out there taking creases and wrinkles out of cards, flattening corners, and even trimming and that a not insubstantial percentage of these cards are, for whatever reason (beyond the subject of this post), getting past the major grading services. I think this happens across the board and is not confined to higher grade cards.

Peter, thank you for your response.
Your point is valid, and true, but you must also agree that the point and subject of my post, is based on the fact that some dealers back in 1990 were alerted, and told about a malignant growth in the hobby/business ... Dr Koos (Danny Dupchek).

Mark Macrae flew down from California, and I from NYC.
We met at the Texas national, and the first thing that hits us, is a dealer that has a Dupchek special on his table ... we find out that he obtained it from another dealer at the show ... It took us a long time to convince the dealer that the card was not Kosher ... because it looked good to him ... now where have we heard that before? ... He eventually got his money back.

Peter, you mention cards of extreme rarity, and higher grade cards.
You may have missed Scot Reader's post of 2006.
In it, he tells about an encounter with Dr Koos back in 2003.
The Koos creations that he speaks about ... the T206 Bell, Ewing and Mattern.
Extreme rarities they're not.

The point of this thread is:
Back in 1990, Macrae, and a collector, with the great support of Lew Lipset, Larry Fritsch, my couselor Herman Kaufman (BTW, recommended to me by Bill Mastro at a Parrsipany NJ show in 1990.)

I got my money back ... but getting the money back was NOT enough.
Computers were not in fashion then ... so I went to Texas.

I get PO'd, when some one messes with MY HOBBY!

Peter, thanks again for your response.
Joe

[fkw]

You cant compare Koos to Chan...

Chans was an easy one for anyone who knows there T206 cards.

Come on... he used black ink instead of the red, thats as easy as it gets.

Ive never been a serious collector of T206 cards but I brought up the questions a few years ago (2005, 2006, 2007) when some collectors were showing off there OM overprints with black ink. I showed (color) scans of the only 2 Ive ever seen (single and double scrapsheet screwup with red SC overprint) and Questioned right away....Why does the black ink overprint have the same factory number as a SC red overprint? It made no sense.

Now if Chan would have done his homework and did his scam with the red ink that would be another story.

I blame PSA, SGC, REA, etc. for not thinking a bit and questioning....why is the overprint black?

[Potomac Yank]

Aloha Frank,

Good to see you aboard.
I agree with you, as for talent, there's no comparison between Chan & Koos.
Aside for a couple of mistakes, Koos was scarey.
I got to hear, "It looks good to me" by a couple of dealers, and that scared me.

Stay well.
Joe