Friendly Lion, I think that if you paid for those cards thinking they were genuine originals, that now you must be glad you got a black light and sad that you bought those cards. Yet isn't it good that you got that light now, rather than you buy additional cards not recognizing the distinctions for two or three more years before you finally try a black light.
Cycleback's article link is good guidance. Leon mentions a good tool set (which includes having or having seen genuine cards of a particular issue). And bigfanNY talking about the glue residue, that's evidence supporting the idea that almost all really old cards in really great shape were long ago pasted into scapbooks, only later to be soaked off of the scrapbook pages. I'm on with that; but some folks are in denial about that for they cannot see the light (pun intended).
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