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Help on 2000 Fleer Greats Auto Set
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Mighty Bombjack
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That looks like an IP auto at best, a forgery at worst. Scan of the back?
bateson said:Hey All,
Bought a lot of cards and the card below was included in the lot and was curious as to why this particular one was hand numbered? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Scott
Fleer bought back a bunch of these autographs. hand numbered them, and included them in a subsequent product as inserts. The gold border and the COA on the back prove you card is legit. If it was an in-person autograph the border would be copper. Contact me with any questions. I'm down to the last seven or so expensive cards to complete my set.
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Mighty Bombjack
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Ah, that IS a buyback, isn't it? That makes sense.
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Mighty Bombjack said:
yes, but a buyback of a real autograph versus a buyback of a base card that they had autographed.
The base set had copper borders.
The autograph set had gold borders and the COA on the back.
You need to be careful when buying these on eBay because sometimes sellers will provide bad scans that make it hard to distinguish gold versus copper borders.
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Tom Oates said:
yes, but a buyback of a real autograph versus a buyback of a base card that they had autographed.
The base set had copper borders.
The autograph set had gold borders and the COA on the back.
You need to be careful when buying these on eBay because sometimes sellers will provide bad scans that make it hard to distinguish gold versus copper borders.[/quote:2wwbz9pr]
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Did they all use that crappy marker? Both the sig and the numbering look second-rate quality to me.
matchpenalty
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didn't Keith Oberman do this autograph set
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I would not be surprised at all. It's a very popular set and condition sensitive due to the gold borders. There are some major SP in the set. Brett, Ozzie Smith, Mattingly, Yount, etc. so you have set builders and player collectors bidding this stuff up big time.
Like others have said it is a "Buybacks" although in this case they were not really a buyback but instead right before Fleer went Bankrupt they took a lot of their extra inventory hand numbered them, embossed them and called them "Buybacks" then made a product around them to save money.
tonsofcommons
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Yeah, I picked up the George Kell that I sent to the gvsu for his Bday. It wsa numbered pretty low and embossed by Fleer.
