"Good question, Eric. The foil stickers were produced in large quantities and used for players besides Mays. The stickers are a good telltale across numerous fakes. The different fonts as you pointed out are another sign to look for—the more…"

"Hi Christopher, That is easier to spot than the entirely different fonts on the name "Willie Mays" on the other side? The "W" and "a" particularly are clearly separate fonts. "

"The fastest way to tell a fake is by looking at the "h" in Autograph. It goes up too high next to the stars on the fakes. Real Fake"

"At a glance the Rev fonts appear a match, but the Obv clearly isn't."

"No problem - see latest post re Obverse fonts. The sticker shown above is no longer used as it was easily copied and stuck to anything."

"Does anyone have any other info re Obverse name font(s) as shown above?"

"Would make more sense if topps just stuck a sticker like that on it.  When they add a #, it makes one think there is record of it somewhere.  According to Google searches from people who contacted Topps with such a question, there…"

"I know this card is bogus but every other example I looked at has the same text issue on the Reverse with the "T" in "Topps" running into the border."

"Kind of makes me think of these loose little things from the past... self authenticating but fake..."

"Would be nice if Topps even did that.  They don't allow the hologram # to be searched anywhere."

"Even PSA doesn't update their database. It has its share of known secretarials and forgeries. Look up the cert number/sticker and it still says "authentic". Would Topps do more?"

"Thank you CJ.  I sent the link to your blog to my friend and told him he should probably share with Pristine as well.  I think they would benefit greatly from your extensive work.  Much appreciated!"

"Yeah.  Mine was more of a comment of how topps could prevent it...have a place where the cards Topps hologramed can be viewed.  If that existed, one could either see there actually was no such hologram number, or could compare the physical…"

"You can buy numbered holographic stickers and custom stickers all over the internet."

"As BC has already noted, I have been posting blogs on the various forged counterfeit cards for the past five years. The "Willie Mays" posted by Ryan is a forged counterfeit card. On the bottom right of the card where it reads…"

"Wow.  I erased that as a possibility (before all the feedback yesterday) given that 1) I thought the foiling (the very thing that proves it is a fake lol) would be difficult to pull off and 2) It came out of Pristine where it would have been…"