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Posted By: Bob

Before you buy any T206 HOFer (especially Cobb) or any tough card in the set, be sure and look very carefully at a) the font below the picture 2) the borders 3) the color of the printing on the back. That will eliminate 85% of the fakes. The other 15% can be tossed out because the colors are wrong or they just "look odd." Before investing a chunk of money in an expensive tobacco card ungraded, do a search on ebay for another legit example and compare them. If it is graded, examine the card carefully to make sure 1) it is worthy of the grade 2) that there hasn't been some chicanery involved and a different lower graded card slipped in the slab and then resealed.
That's about all you can do. The more you do your homework, read the posts on the 54 Board and learn as much as you can about the cards, the less you will be fooled.
tbob