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Posted By: Paul Adams

Definite reprints:

1952T Mays; look at the stamp "printed in the USA" on the reverse and compare to a graded original.

1952T Mantle; Elephantine sized borders. This particular reprint is being auctioned on Ebay.

T205 Cobb; huge borders, wrong color even though he probably tinted the image using photoshop, and a bad attempt at creating artificial wear on the edges.

1933G Ruth #181; This reprint is already running in another auction on Ebay. It is distinguisible from the original by noting the position of the frame relative to Ruth's right elbow. The clipped corners, like many other of his reprints, an effort to produce a wear-like appearance is priceless.

T206 Red Portrait Cobb; What is this? The lost variation with a maroon background? Like most reprints, the borders are far too wide as well.

T206 Cobb bat off; again, with the biggest borders ever seen on a T206 Cobb. Laughable.

T206 Johnson protrait; wrong color ink for the name, same elephantine borders and artificial aging and/or artificial photoshop tinting.

The bottom left corner on the Joe Jackson strip card is hysterical! Nice attempt at artificial wear. On a whole, in my opinion, each and every one of these cards are altered reprints (and the ones I wasn't 100% sure of were pushed over to that side by the sheer weight of volume present of cards that are unquestionably reprints in this seller's auctions), except the lots, and the 1980s and up cards. Notice how nice the colors on those are presented very accurately without a trace of tint.