New Acquisitions Thread

[irv]

Originally Posted by pgconboy

Hoping no one in here happened to have bought this 1960 Stan Mikita card on ebay last month, looks fake.

Fake ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224201777734

Real card:
https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?s...oduct.chain%5D

I'm not familiar with these cards at all so I am not questioning your knowledge, but what, in your opinion, leads you to believe it is fake?
Both cards exhibit the same front print marks so "my guess" is just the scans are making it look different/unauthentic to you?

[Eric72]

My first hockey card pickup in a little while. It looks better in person. If I could just figure out the best scanner settings to use...

[Oscar_Stanage]

this is awesome !
I also collect these 80s Gretzky O-Pee-Chee award cards. nice pickup!

[irv]

Originally Posted by Eric72

My first hockey card pickup in a little while. It looks better in person. If I could just figure out the best scanner settings to use...

For a graded/slabbed card, that looks pretty decent, imo, Eric.

There is a test section below where you can go and play with all sorts of settings to see what works best, but also, as this has been asked ad nauseam, as you likely know, there are also many scanner threads on here if you want to do a search.
https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...hlight=scanner

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

this is awesome !
I also collect these 80s Gretzky O-Pee-Chee award cards. nice pickup!

Thanks. It was an eBay auction that apparently nobody was following. I managed to get this for a song.

Originally Posted by irv

For a graded/slabbed card, that looks pretty decent, imo, Eric.

I can't seem to get the colors right. The scanner made it look like Wayne has the worst case of sunburn ever.

[Kurri17]

Very nice. Those leader cards are under appreciated, and I especially love the 83/84s, great pick-up.

[Oscar_Stanage]

Very happy with this pickup.....
Beautiful shape.

[Kurri17]

That is just beautiful. One of my favorite food/oddball issues, and yeah, that Gretz is in great condition. Congrats.

[Oscar_Stanage]

Originally Posted by Kurri17

That is just beautiful. One of my favorite food/oddball issues, and yeah, that Gretz is in great condition. Congrats.

thanks, this a really nice set, probably tough to find all the singles. Are there any other key cards other than Gretzky?

[Kurri17]

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

thanks, this a really nice set, probably tough to find all the singles. Are there any other key cards other than Gretzky?

Well, obviously KURRI! is the key card in the set But there really aren't any RCs of note or anything, just stars like the other Oilers Mess, Fuhr, Coffey, and then Lafleur, Hawerchuk, maybe a couple of others. 1983 wasn't even big RC year for the regular OPC set, so there isn't something like that. I haven't followed it recently enough to remember if there are some unusually tough ones to find.

[pgconboy]

Originally Posted by irv

I'm not familiar with these cards at all so I am not questioning your knowledge, but what, in your opinion, leads you to believe it is fake?
Both cards exhibit the same front print marks so "my guess" is just the scans are making it look different/unauthentic to you?

Here are a few examples:

https://imgur.com/a/rC99EUW

The first time I looked at the card I saw the print bubbles match up and assumed it was real. But because the seller also sold a fake mantle, baseball card and Roger Staubach, I decided to take a closer look.

You can see a huge difference in the top left corner, a medium difference in the bottom left corner, and a substantial difference in the centering of the bottom right corner.

The seller appears to be buying 3rd party cases, printing his own PSA labels and putting in lower quality (probably real) cards.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

Very happy with this pickup.....
Beautiful shape.

Nice card.

Congrats.

Originally Posted by pgconboy

Here are a few examples:

https://imgur.com/a/rC99EUW

The first time I looked at the card I saw the print bubbles match up and assumed it was real. But because the seller also sold a fake mantle, baseball card and Roger Staubach, I decided to take a closer look.

You can see a huge difference in the top left corner, a medium difference in the bottom left corner, and a substantial difference in the centering of the bottom right corner.

The seller appears to be buying 3rd party cases, printing his own PSA labels and putting in lower quality (probably real) cards.

Good eye and detective work. Definitely a fake/different card than what was once associated with the cert #.