w514 Joe Jackson currently on the Bay

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Posted By: jamie

I was planning on bidding on this until the seller responded to my question in regards to the authenticity of the card:

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Hello,

Here is what I know. I listed this for a friend of mine. He ran into a
guy
who helped take care a some older lady (who passed away several years
ago).
This guy was given a box of about 200 old baseball cards and "flag cards"

(whatever those may be). So this guy stopped by my friend's table at a
sports collectibles show at the mall and asked if he woould be
interested in
looking at the cards. My friend went to his house and tried to buy the
whole
box off the guy but he wouldn't sell it yet. He is still trying to get
the
box, but in the mean time the guy sold my friend this one card since he
went
out of his way to check them out. That is all I know about the card. My
friend has dealt with baseball cards and collectibles and he said that
according to books he looked at it is an authentic 1919 Joe Jackson
tobacco
card.


Thanks!
John
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So let the buyer beware. His friend who is knowledgable about baseball cards didn't even identify the card correctly and his story is a very familiar variation of the attic/estate sale find