T206 Freaks Beware

[Leon]

Originally Posted by sesop

I have to say- I had a thought about something like this being possible with the overprints of certain caramel cards (what's stopping someone from getting an Old Put or Toy Town stamp), as well as some of the ghost imagery we've seen on many T206 cards. Is any mechanism in place to ensure stamps (and ghost prints, etc) are genuine? I've seen cards with crazy printing freaks slabbed Authentic in the past- suppose someone buys a raw, REAL card, prints/stamps something less than authentic on it (ie- American Beauty logo, Toy Town, etc), and submits it for slabbing- the card, technically, is Authentic. Will it come back graded? Authentic? Not slabbed at all? Supposing a "fake" stamp on a real card ends up in an Auth slab- how can future buyers know it's not "real?"

I've always wanted an overprint caramel card but I have to say- this sort of thing makes me very nervous.

There have been a few tries at faking the overprints but so far I don't think they have gotten by the TPGs, except for one fake E94 overprint which was quickly revealed (and now resides in my collection as I wanted it off the market). We do know most of the currently known types of overprints have been around since before they had any real value, so they aren't a newly made-up phenomenon. Knowledge is key...And most of these particular examples have 25+ yr provenance ....