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Posted By: Mike Williams 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2731820917&category=31719

Could the missing part of the card be where the word "Reprint" was? Possibly the funniest description I've ever read!

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

$51 to get in at this point...

Lemme see - card looks awful, sounds awful, smells awful, feels awful. I bet it tastes good, though.

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Posted By: Jeff

To think that I have been putting all of my garbage into the can and then to the curb each week.I should have been selling it on ebay, I guess the gene pool is more dilluted then I thought.

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Posted By: Hankron

That 'exact replica' disussed in the other thread is starting to sound pretty good.

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Posted By: TBob

Ahhh, just the Wagner I was looking for to top off my 206 collection! ROFLMAO!

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Posted By: Hankron

In case you are interested, below is a link to the images of the card being offered in the auction. While I understand that large items like posters or ad signs sometimes can't be photographed at a head on angle, I find it amusing when these one inch (or so) long pieces of cardboard are photographed to appear like a desert highway dissapearing into the foothills. To his credit, though, he got the upper left of the plastic holder in perfect focus.

http://wagnercard.tripod.com/

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Posted By: jay behrens

sure looks like someone went to a lot of effect for rough up a reprint. With wear like that, there should be plenty of soiling and discoloration, which isn't there. It also looks too shiney for that much wear.

Jay

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Posted By: Hankron

I don't think there should be much debate about whether or not the card is authentic, as it is obvious to me that even the seller knows it's a fake. If the seller thought it was real (and chose, for whatever reason, not to consign it to MastroNet or get it looked at by PSA or SGC), he would have 1) Taken pictures that were actually in focus and head on and 2) actually had the images as part of the auction description. It is worth pointing out that in his past auctions descriptions, he was actually able to provide head-on and in focus images of the Gameboy cartridges he was selling. So it's not as if he has that rarest of rare cameras that only allows one to take out of focus 15 degree photographs.

Trust me, if the seller thought he actually had a card worth over $10,000 he would have provided in focus pictures.