New Stuff 12/17

A few new items for you to add to your holiday list.

New Stuff 12/17

Also another new release from leaf memories has a few Rose cards in it check it out.

Rose news

Wanted to pass on some Pete Rose news encase you have missed it.  He will have a TLC reality series, "Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs.", with his girlfriend that premiers Jan 14 at 10 pm set the dvr.  There are 6 episodes planned should be interesting to see how it plays out and portrays him and her.

More info on show.

He also has planned for next year "4192 - An Evening with Pete Rose Live" tour through 25 cities only have date for Cincinnati show on opening day Apr 1.  He did a limited number of these last year and if you have never seen Pete live tell baseball stories I would recommend it he has a great time telling stories and baseball lore.

More info on live tour.

More Counterfeits

Well since the 72 Topps Venezuelans have been proven counterfeit I thought I'd look at some other Rose counterfeits that have been going around the hobby.  This biggest one around that have gotten some of us is the 60's photocards. 

These are all fakes/reproductions/counterfeits what ever your term -

They are produced on a high gloss photo paper while the originals were also on gloss paper they were on slightly thicker stock for one.  But the real tell is the borders around the picture and below the Cincinnati Reds on the original there are much wider borders and almost a 1/2 border below the Cincinnati Reds.  If your real eagle eyed there is also photo cropping differences easiest to see in the 64/65 notice the right foot in regard to the edge of the picture the fake there it is almost touching the border the real deal there is a lot of space.

Again these 3 poses have been going around the hobby and really hurt the value when the real deal show up which the real deals are very rare to start with and to get these in a lot together or a lot of 3 or more the same is pretty hard to imagine.

Here are the real deals notice wide border top and bottom-

1972 Topps Venezuelan

I noticed something particular about these cards and decided to ask the experts and started a topic over on PSA website and got back an interesting answer.

As you can see below there are 2 varieties of the cards what I call old stock and then new stock.  There is only 2 ways this could have happened either 2 printing happened or 1 is counterfeit. 

I present it to you make your own judgment I'm leaning more to 2 printing than full out counterfeit but there are some puzzling issues the most glaring that really bothers me is the old stock ones just looks old; the white has faded and borders are slightly thicker.  But that can be explained by paper stock was just better for a second printing.  Well it appears now that the opinion is full out counterfeit so again judge for yourself but I will be staying away of the newer stock for now.

Here is the PSA forum for full read if you have anything to add please post here or there and maybe we can get a better understanding.  Until then we might all have to get 2 copies of probably the rarest card of the 70's.

New Stuff 11/15

Happy early Thanksgiving here's some new items

New Stuff 11/15

Also been some new releases and upcoming ones that Rose will be in

2012 Panini Prime Cuts
2012 Panini Signature Series
2012 Leaf Metal Draft
2012 Leaf Valiant
2012 Leaf Wrestling
2012 UD All Time Greats Sports

Those already released are on the website

Double Dose of New Stuff

Seems I forgot last month post so double post for this month.

New Stuff 09/19

New Stuff 10/20

New Stuff 08/20

More additions to the ever growing site.

New Stuff 08/20