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The Lugosi SPc I sold now with a different photo attached?. **Disturbing pastiche warning.** Originality & context cast aside, or is it entirely fake?
This makes me sick. To think someone would do this...to those that know it also looks ridiculous because this photograph was never used for these later cards! Now it is a modern pastiche with a challenged signature. But is it as challenged before? Nothing disclosed by the seller about that. :-(
There is one less original vintage unmolested Lugosi in the world. Now I wish I gave it to a young collector.
The original as held and signed by Bela Lugosi:
The modern pastiche/altered/"custom" card...is the signature "restored" as well? Altered and smudged is not a good combination I think. Originality over eye appeal any day of the week.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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Same seller as Jose's posted MJ, which is how I stumbled onto this "Frankenstein".
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The link to this auction of altered/damaged goods:
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Seller apparently doesn't know or even care...
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Eric, please upload the reverse of the card you sold.
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I don't have that imaged. It is not as I recall. The card was creased as well, vertically, but certainly not fatal. The Reverse was a paper fiber as expected and double weight. I should have the image somewhere. The more I think about it - the two joined cuts will have very different gloss...I just don't get it apart from the perception of eye appeal.
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This is the reverse of the one being offered. I'll attach a larger front as well:dda
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It think it is two cuts joined and pasted to a single backing. I do not recall those dark marks shown now.
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As I recall, the right edge was trimmed and not perfectly straight. I wish I could remember if there was tape on the back.
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Are you thinking we are looking at some sort of contrivance? Would the PSA cert # reveal if this was "restored? or "conserved"? Does PSA offer those services like PCGS does w coins? Both CU. The Dracula photo looks correct but the signature is quite washed out from when I saw it last.
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Something appears to have been done to that or it is some high tech contrivance. Very smtrt to leave the end of the last name with good contrast.
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It appears to be some sort of counterfeit. Whether the entire piece of just the autograph, I don't know. Do you have a pic of a real Dracula card?
PSA does not do paper restoration as far as I recall.
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