How many people on Ebay will be duped by these?

[the 'stache]

A T206 collector will spot them as fakes. But to the uninformed consumer, or a newbie, once these sets are broken up, this spells trouble. Big trouble.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/T206-Reprodu...item2c715444ad

They're pristine now. But it's not hard to add a little corner wear, or soil the edges just a bit.

Now, I'm not saying anything bad about the creator of these cards. As somebody that has started collecting the set, I'd love to have these to look at. But you know there are unscrupulous people that will take these, and take advantage of others. There is nothing that identifies them as reprints, at least from what I can see, and that's opening Pandora's box.

Net 54, and reputable dealers are more important than ever.

[the 'stache]

Hmm, I'm sorry guys, it looks like this has already been discussed here last year. It's late, I'm on lots of pain meds, and I'm not thinking too clearly I guess. I'd done a quick search on Google, but only after starting the topic did I go back and search on the seller's name.

Here's the original discussion:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=151826&page=2

The thing that bothered me most was this line:

These cards are virtually indistinguishable from the originals.

As no pictures of the backs are provided, and no mention of "reproduction" being printed on the back was mentioned in the auction description, I assumed the worst as far as fakes being sold.

But what I would like to do now, seeing as how it's been almost 15 months since the original discussion, is ask if any of you seasoned T206 collectors have seen these being passed off as originals on Ebay? I wouldn't expect you to buy them, of course, but have these at all become a problem in the "wrong hands"?

Thanks in advance for your input.

[steve B]

I think the $195 price will keep the reprint sellers and fakers away. It's far easier to print your own, or buy any of the much cheaper reprints that are out there.

They do look better than his trimmed "NM" cards.

Steve B

[ZenPop]

I just checked out his website and the back of the cards are labeled as "reproduction"...

Some scammer could remove that, but he did a great job w/ quality and also put it in small type at the bottom...

[ALR-bishop]

Fritsch has bee selling reproductions of this set and numerous other old sets for years. What is a "newbie" anyway ?

[itjclarke]

Thanks for posting Bill, I hadn't seen the previous thread.

I don't like these. Like you, I don't think I have a real problem with the seller/maker of them. If there's a market and they can sell these, more power to them (I guess). I just don't like that they exist at all, whether they say reprint on the back or not. Some people may want these as display pieces, but I'm sure there are as many, or more licking their chops at the prospect of rebacking these with real Sweet Cap/Piedmont/PB/EPDG/etc backs and then slipping them it into cracked SGC or PSA cases.

It's great PSA is re-designing their holders.. but I view that with the same opinion I've had about the countermeasures (watermarks/etc) for counterfeit money... why fake the new money (or crack the new PSA holder) when you can just print off a bunch of the old bills (or swap cards into old cases).