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Real card with phony text? (E121?)
What the heck am I looking at here?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/17568968126...kNIX5&LH_All=1 |
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A W575-1 with a stamped back? Even the front doesn't inspire confidence with me, but what do I know? .
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My vote
I vote for a fake with phoney aged back and the typical perfect centering with perfectly rounded corners. I don’t think the seller is dishonest but I don’t think this is the “real deal” ….. just my opinions from gut reaction
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From the font and kerning, it looks like someone did a cut and paste of a cropped Baker caption from the front of an M101-4/M101-5 type to create the caption on this one and printed a blurry E121-120 back for good measure.
Last edited by darwinbulldog; 04-20-2023 at 09:40 AM. |
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The font is definitely off, it is more fancy, like the m101-4/5s. The e121 font is plainer. Also the name is such a dark black compared to the rest of the card
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Glenn, below are pics of a couple of my E121-120 cards, from which you can see the difference in fonts from the Baker card on eBay.
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Exact first things I noticed as well, especially the corners. When do you ever see corners naturally wear so perfectly like that? Agree, not real. |
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268. Unicornering (Unicornery)
A card doctor making all four corners of a very rare and valuable (fake) card universally, symmetrically rounded, although a card like that does not exist in the natural world.
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Too much is wrong with that card for it to be genuine, as you guys have mentioned. If whoever wins that card is reading this thread, I suggest that you put on sunglasses before testing it with uv light. It'll fluoresce brightly. It's not a genuine card.
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I think it's from the same group of early fakes as this card I've had since 78.
Someone told me what exact fake it is, but I don't remember. I think it's in messages somewhere. (I really should start writing this stuff down) |
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100% Fake.
Stamped back…all wrong E135 style printing on front with E121 style back…all wrong Baker was not among the cards that are included in the E121-120 set (he was dropped after the E121-80 set)… all wrong Bad fake.
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