Pawn Stars

[rdwyer]

Funny, I was watching DEA on Spike TV today. They not only found major drugs but some 80's and 90's Topps, which he said were old school.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

Funny, I was watching DEA on Spike TV today. They not only found major drugs but some 80's and 90's Topps, which he said were old school.

LOL. That is funny.

[53Browns]

Glad it has finally been confirmed by the greatest source possible, some fat bald guys in a pawn shop in NV, that the baseball card crash is real.

[buymycards]

Hi Jim,
Over the years I have been burned by some fakes so I am very cautious when purchasing cards. Some of the fakes are very difficult to detect, but these weren't good fakes. They were like some of the counterfeit cards on ebay - one quick glance and you know they aren't any good.

My wife and I were watching that episode of pawn stars and when they showed the first close up of the cards I turned to my wife and said "those are fakes". On the latest episode where someone brought in some Ali autographs I was completely in the dark. I don't know anything about them so I wouldn't have been able to identify the good ones from the bad ones. I am sure that other people on this board could spot them right away.

Rick

[Orioles1954]

I have handled many, many, many thousands of cards from the 1967 Topps set and those cards were printed differently than other cards from the decade. The QC was all over the place on that issue. TV is probably not the best place to judge if a card is authentic....but those looked real from my perspective and I deal with the idiosyncracies of that set every day.

[FUBAR]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Hi Jim,
Over the years I have been burned by some fakes so I am very cautious when purchasing cards. Some of the fakes are very difficult to detect, but these weren't good fakes. They were like some of the counterfeit cards on ebay - one quick glance and you know they aren't any good.

My wife and I were watching that episode of pawn stars and when they showed the first close up of the cards I turned to my wife and said "those are fakes". On the latest episode where someone brought in some Ali autographs I was completely in the dark. I don't know anything about them so I wouldn't have been able to identify the good ones from the bad ones. I am sure that other people on this board could spot them right away.

Rick

the general consensus at the time, from what i remember, is that the cards were real, no one had seen fakes of that card. Afterall, who fakes a 4th year Rose or whatever it was. The board had a thread about the Rose cards and the Gehrig jersey.... Now myself, i have no clue, even if they were in my hand, im not the best at detecting fakes....

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

Funny, I was watching DEA on Spike TV today. They not only found major drugs but some 80's and 90's Topps, which he said were old school.

haha, i was actually watching that same episode yesterday. There was a bunch of 1991 Upper Deck in sheets as well and the DEA agent said something to the effect of " Hes selling drugs and might not even know hes sitting on a fortune of old Baseball cards". I got a good laugh out of that.

BTW hi guys, my name is Bilko from Calgary. Been reading the boards for years and was a member on the old board, just recently signed up on the "new board" though. Ill probably mainly be a lurker