Collectible Fakes
Some time back someone got a bunch a Topps Surf books and cut out the reduced pictures of the cards in them and then affixed them to backs that had a stamp that said "Topps Promotional Sample" They looked pretty good and a bunch showed up on ebay. Bob Lemke actually listed them in SCD as fakes and explained what they were. In the 2011 Catalog they are at the beginning of the 1960 Topps listings (p 397) and a 62 Mantle is pictured.
His description said they have no collectible value, but in my experience, even fakes can have a collectible values as fakes. For example there are many fakes of the 1989 Ripken obscenity card and I know people who try to collect every "variation" of that card, real or faked. And some idiots, like me, bought some of the Topps promotional samples off ebay just to have examples. I keep them with my regular sets in holders labeling them as fakes along
Last edited by ALR-bishop; 09-13-2012 at 08:46 AM.
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