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I know the idiotic ebay auctions sometimes grow tiresome, but this one really is funny. This guy actually thinks his card was printed on October 16, 1912 because it has a newspaper headline reproduction from that date.
The card that Paul linked to looks older than the NRMT one that you linked. The older looking card is at $55, that new and shiney thing is a BIN at $3.... hmmmm, old looking and more expensive or shiney and cheap..... hmmmm...
That card that Paul linked to has a great description. I love it when you get somebody that hasn't got a clue and what's even funnier are the people bidding on it... there's got to be a few shills in there.
It was silly of them to not follow the advice of others and consign it with Sotheby's. They will be leaving money on the table by going the Ebay route instead.
Actual message sent last night to owner after getting a snippy response about sending a scan of my four Nu Scoops Sox cards that I own and her insisting that no other date is on the card so it must be truly vintage...
"So let me get this straight...just because it has no other date on the card you think it is old. If that is the case, I will sell you my ultra rare, oldest in the world one of a kind cat, dated 1878!! I swear there is no other date on the cat and this date is printed neatly in ink on his collar. One of a kind!! Buy now for just $1500!! A steal at this price...he still purrs!!"
One of these days I wish someone would list the names of the "dealers" who verify the authenticity of these items. I just shake my head when someone lists a card like a T207 I. Lewis with the text on the back indicating how many thousands of dollars the card is worth and then they claim they talked to several dealers who said it was authentic. What a world...
I've seen many times the "Took to the local card shop and the owner said ..." story, and assume these cards were never taken to a local card shop and/or shown to local dealers.
In the auction, we are led to believe that 1) This 2 cent Scoops card was a single lot at an antiques auction and 2) No one in attendance, including numerous dealers who expressed knowledge about baseball card scarcity, had an inkling the card was modern ... I don't believe either.
If these "dealers" knew so little about baseball cards that they thought Scoops were from Pre-WWI, how would they be in possession of the notion that the card was 1-of-1?
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