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davidcyclebackMastroNet and REA are likely to be offering the real cards. When these auction houses offer them, the cards tend to sell for good money.
For the collector, there are so many different Ruth cards out there, so there's no need to purchase a Fro Joy when you aren't sure. There must be hundreds of different Ruth cards out there. There's no no need to get a complex over purchasing a Fro Joy.
The ultimate way to authenticate a 1928 Fro Joy is by putting the card under a miscroscope. The original Fro Joys used a no longer used form of commercial printing that is identified under a microscope. Whether or not they look nice to the naked eye, the reprints use different printing. With Fro Joys and beyond, even the best baseball card counterfeits are only trying to fool at the naked eye level .... Though, with the Fro Joys, many fakes look bad to the naked eyes. Beyond the color ones, automatically skip the Fro Joys that are heavily toned/brown.
Printing is like any technology, from computers to cars. You can accurately judge the age of something by the technology and materials used to make it. If you find a US made teddy bear made from asbestos, you can be confident that the bear wasn't made just recently. Today's toy maker who uses asbestos would likely face prison time.