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Tom BoblittHate to see someone duped but there's been a lot of people win his advertising pieces and have all left him positive feedback. I have to believe he might work for a printer or something because much of it is on thin cardboard and then aged. He uses the same photo for an auction 3-4 times but only rarely used some 'not sure about authenticity' verbiage. Odd though that he uses his real address in the auctions. He might have been duped by someone else that created them.
Let me edit this to say that I've never won one of his auctions, so I don't know for sure but I see his 1926 Louisville Slugger Famous Sluggers and I have some of those and his just does not look correct. It's odd that he would have multiple advertising pieces with the same exact look of Mantle and other Hall of Famers. He lives in the hotbed of fakes and I would be hard-pressed to believe he isn't the shiloh33 or other id's from Central Ohio that at one time was selling fake Mantle rookies, T206 Cobbs, 33 Goudey Ruths and more. Problem with those is that they are easily distinguishable fakes for the most part. Authentication on them is easy. Different story for advertising pieces. The only one that's tripping him up heavily is the W600 Cobb on the last few auctions he's sold.
I'd love to be wrong as it'd be nice to see another Cobb W600. I didn't have one in the 130+ I sold and hadn't seen any pictured anywhere but the Copeland Collection catalog (I think) and a VG+/- one that Mastronet sold a few years back. I need to pull out my Copeland Collection catalog and see because could be he did some type of color print from that. The W600 looks wavy and too thin to begin with.