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Posted By: davidcycleback

For most standard issues, if you have a beater or two from the issue you can identify almost all reprints by comparing. Thickness, gloss (back and front), holding the cards up to the light to see how much light shines through, etc. Reprints are almost always distinctly different in one or more significant ways than the originals ... It's always smart for a starting collector to pick up a collection of low grade Goudeys, T-cards, Bowmans, etc. And, when you get sick of stacking your slabs, it's great to have shoe box of beaters-- cards you can flip across the room and put on the refrigerator.