Cobb Strip Card questions

[brianp-beme]

I found this W516-1-1 (a SGC that I cropped the living SGC-ness out of it) that was posted on here in another thread, and in my eyes it shares a lot of the same attributes as the OP's card in question, just with good background color registration, instead of an offset of the red color.

Brian

[The Detroit Collector]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I found this W516-1-1 (a SGC that I cropped out the SGC-ness out of it) that was posted on here in another thread, and in my eyes it shares a lot of the same attributes as the OP's card in question, just with good background color registration, instead of an offset of the red color.

Brian

Maybe its the lighting, but I see no skin color on Cobbs face in the OP. The strip cards have skin coloring.

[B O'Brien]

Very helpful! I was thinking that if it was fake, the color would have lined up a little better. I also wouldn’t have thought they would have been faking strip cards, pre mid 90’s but I guess a lot of things got knocked off in the rise of cards in the 80’s.

Got a little closer face shot here.

Thanks,
Bob

[brianp-beme]

With that close up you can see the face and arm coloration better.

Brian

[NiceDocter]

The $20 one Ive had for 40 years. The other I got in a 40 card collection from New York via Canada that had been in one mans possession for over 50 years when he bought them from the original owner that had them for 50 years. I guess the only way to find out is send it in and see what happens. BTW I think 2 other red flags for me are the perfect cuts and the maybe artificially aged back ( can be done with tea or coffee ). Call me a skeptic....

[FrankWakefield]

Brian is right, as are others, the "Ty Cobb" on the back is crap, Cobb didn't sign that.

The front of the card is a maybe, the back of the card doesn't look right. Illuminate that card with a black light, then let us know if it fluoresces. Uv light can be a definitive test. Without that, and without the card in hand, then at least take a closeup of the card's edge.

Would a grading outfit (eg SGC or PSA) grade that card from a picture?? Of course not.

[Spike]

I've seen (too) many W516s and that Cobb _card_ looks OK, well within the tolerances and variety you can expect for W516 print quality. The maker of W516s (Universal Toy & Novelty Co.) printed many runs of its baseball strips and moved toward cheaper/less ink as time went on.

I think something more exact than hand scissors cut its edges at some point, which should still be fine for a grader to put in an AUTH holder. Trust others on validity of the autograph, as my experience is with those cards. :-)

[jingram058]

I have read that Ty Cobb, other than very rarely, only signed autographs using green ink.