Real or Fake Post Cereal Vintage Cards

[Volod]

with those two Joe Torre's well out of all of the Post Cereal cards they both look very much original what would be the difference
both are 1962's are they supposed to have clear images with bold text

Jake: Are both of those cards in your hand? If you have a loupe or other strong magnifying optical device, you should be able to see the difference under magnification. On the other hand, if one or both images are screen grabs, and not in hand, magnification would only show the photocopy, not the original card surface.

[skil55voy]

The reason for the color discrepancies is: Torre was on 3 different boxes of cereal. Grape Nuts Flake 12 oz, Top 3 10 oz. and Sugar Coated Corn Flakes.
Post was concerned with the colors on the FRONT of the boxes. So, there are shading and color variations for the cards. Dan Mabey's book explain this in the Bragging Rights section of the book.

GNF 12 oz - Pinkish face, dark brown eyes etc.. Orange flesh face on SCCF and so on....The cards on not fakes just the showing the tints of the boxes they were on.

[HOF Yankees]

Originally Posted by Volod

Jake: Are both of those cards in your hand? If you have a loupe or other strong magnifying optical device, you should be able to see the difference under magnification. On the other hand, if one or both images are screen grabs, and not in hand, magnification would only show the photocopy, not the original card surface.

Steve- those were cards I posted from ebay, sorry about that I should have mentioned it in my original first response

Michael- will the color differences vary from player to player

I could also post all of the ones I own currently if that helps

[skil55voy]

Jake,

That is correct. Many of the players will have color differences as they were on more than one box. An example:

Bobby Richardson:

Post Tens - Orange Flesh Face, Black Cap, Yellow Bat
Post Toasties 12oz. Regular Box Top - Yellow/Orange Face, Blue Cap, Tan Bat
Post Toasties 12oz. Pour Spout Box -Brown Flesh Face Blue Cap Deep Tan Bat AND White Carboard back.