something fishy help please

[slantycouch]

The dimensions of those seem off to me for sure. And the colors aren't quite right. Guess that could be the scan, but as Brian said... no caramel staining?

I'd say bad all around.

[FrankWakefield]

Those don't just look like reprints, they are.


The backs have been tinkered with so that they look like they might be old. The back borders and front borders should look about the same, these don't. The fonts on the front are consistent with those of reprints.

Absolutely, definitely reprints.

[Rob D.]

I think they're reprints.

[tbob]

Absolutely reprints. The forgers just can't quite seem to get the color of the green grass right despite all their efforts. Plus, the backs have that fake stained tea/mildew looking discoloration to make them look old that I have seen on other fakes. Sigh. It was much easier in the old days when the forgers would smear dirt or other material on the backs or even run bicycle tires over them to leave a tread mark to make them look old, to spot the fakes but you can still tell. getting tougher, but these are a no brainer IMHO.

[fkw]

100% Reprints

The easiest way to tell is the uniform and border on many of the cards should blend together where they meet.

These reprints had the original border cropped and then a new white border added (the new border is always too white compared to the white areas of the picture) and also they needed to redesign a new caption (too dark and bold). They do this so when they rescreen the card in the reprint design they dont get a bunch of print dots in the white border.

Jennings is an easy one to see even in a small scan.