Flea Market Finds

[donmuth]

I went to a flea market this past weekend and picked up some post-WWII vintage baseball cards including a '57T Robin Roberts, '61T Richie Ashburn, a '67T Joe Morgan, some 70s cards of Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell, and Brooks Robinson... and a 1947-66 Exhibits Larry Doby.

The find of the day was the 1973 Mike Schmidt shown here. My question to the experts is if it's real or a counterfeit/reprint. The printing looks better on the actual card than it does in my 300 dpi scan. It looks good to me, but since this is the first '73 Schmidt RC I've owned, I'd like others' opinions.


Thanks!

[Eric72]

Nothing jumping out and screaming "fake" to me. How does the card feel, compared to the other '70s cards you have? How's the gloss/reflectivity, compared to the others?

[JollyElm]

To paraphrase 'Seinfeld,' "It's real and it's fantastic."

It undoubtedly appears to be real, and it also has the typical centering involved with that card. A fine grab, indeed!!

[Casey2296]

It's one of the finer John Hilton rookie cards I've seen.

[isiahfan]

great finds...why don't people share the prices ever on these threads FFS

[Zach Wheat]

Looks real to me. Hey Jolly Elm is back!

[Volod]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

To paraphrase Seinfeld, "It's real and it's fantastic."

Sorry to be picking nits, but actually, the quote was uttered by Terry Hatcher in a Seinfeld episode, "They're real and they're spectacular." Too bad we didn't get to judge for ourselves, eh?

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Volod

Sorry to be picking nits, but actually, the quote was uttered by Terry Hatcher in a Seinfeld episode, "They're real and they're spectacular." Too bad we didn't get to judge for ourselves, eh?

I was obviously using 'Seinfeld' to denote the show, not Jerry himself. (Now added single quotes to my post.)