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Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999
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How about if I print the scans and glue them to a bit of a cereal box? It'll come out just about the same.
Imaging technology has come a long way and makes unconvincing fakes pretty easy.
Back when the wood was done someone had to have an original, photograph it with a special camera, make a plate and print them on a press. -The back may be rubber stamped, but still required an original.
Today it's a matter of finding an image online with at least decent resolution and printing it on something close to the original cardboard. I bought a 33 Goudey Ruth and Gherig that were reprints, but looked pretty good. Both showed flaws, like bad centering and registration, and they looked about the right thickness. In hand they were obvious to me, but I haven't tried them on my non-collecting friends. I'll probably frame them with a reprinted photo at some point to make a nice display.
The tipoff on the 48 Bowmans was the border size. Real ones have narrower borders than the reprints.
One set to keep an eye out for is a set done for a show in the 70's that are the size and look of 48 Bowmans but include players that weren't in the set. (Maybe ones that were too? I'm not sure) They're nice fantasy pieces and aren't particularly common.
Steve B
02-11-2015, 08:03 AM
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