Are these real or "recreations"???

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I saw these on eBay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190076064709&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1

I buy affordable cards of Veach. These just don't look right to me. The image on the card doesn't look right, too grainy, like they've been photocopied. The edges look too sharp... anyone have an opinion as to whether these are real? The seller has lots of great feedback, which has me doubting my suspicions.

Thanks.

Frank.

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Posted By: T206Collector

...but that grain is common in bad scans of pre-war cards. Also, the seller routinely sells authentic T206 cards (an issue I am quite familiar with). I would guess you're safe here.

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Posted By: leon

They look like W501's to me....

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

They are W575-1s, which are very "dotty"-- no worries, they're genuine and should be affordable.

Edited to correct my earlier misinformation-- others had it right.

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

I think they appear real. They are w575-1 b cards or some call them a variation of w501 that is uncategorized. The actual w501's have print on the front above the picture. Nice looking cards.

Ken

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Posted By: fkw

Ken got it.

They are sometimes called W575-1B.

These cards are more closely related to the W501 set than the W575-1A set. They share the same grainy photos, caption variations, and checklist as the W501's.

They are technically not cataloged yet. They are basically a W501 without the "G-4-22" at top. Grading companies call them W575-1.

They were obviously in a vertical strip, and most of them have rough borders at top and bottom. I think they came out of a machine and were torn off one at a time (sort of like scotch tape)

Here is a post (with photos) on these from 3 weeks ago. Rhett and I talked about these exact cards.

W575-1, W501, W575-1B

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

Remember the post well and I learned thisfrom that post Frank. You taught me well.

Ken