Fan Craze Reprints

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Posted By: Dave

I'm seeing them pop up on ebay more often and was wondering if anyone has laid eyes on them. I'm wondering what stock they are on, dimensions... etc.

Since I've started to collect the NY team I want to know if these bad boys are close enough to the originals to make me worry when purchasing raw. I just bought the Keeler (see the last Jan Pick-up thread) and also have the Dougherty. Both are graded... so this is more of a "for the future" question instead of a "panic" question.

Anyone with info?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1904-Fan-Craze-NEW-YORK-YANKEES-reprint-team-set-NM_W0QQitemZ290077923430QQihZ019QQcategoryZ26362QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Posted By: martindl

I've not seen the reprints in person but the pictures on front are fairly easy to discern from the originals. They're blacker and have no tonal shading. If you've given the ones you have in hand a good look over, you won't be fooled by the reprints.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The tell tale of reprints of all round corner game cards are the round corners. The reprint corners are almost always different-- handcut, irregular corner to corner, larger or smaller, etc. The originals are usually uniform throughout the sets and machine cut. All the collector has to do is cheack out known genuine cards (Oldcarboard, graded, etc) and compare the corners.

The first picture below is a card from the current Mastro Auction. Below that is a card in the eBay auction.

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Posted By: Dave

I did notice the darker shade on the reprints but wasn't sure if is was a just a bad scan/photo... but the corner difference is very easy to spot.

Thanks guys. Tremendous help.