How does this happen??

[labguy42]

I have a very large collection of Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, and Bronko Nagurski cards and this is one of my favorites. How can this happen the same exact card ##. I spend a bunch of $$ on this stuff so the fact the there is the same card with the same serial number really concerns me. What does everyone think?

[pwaldo]

Looks like the graded one has a funky text. The top one is how the numbering should look but the other one has a different font used for the numbering. Could somebody have taken a blank one and just stamped that with a machine?

[JKadlitz]

pwaldo, that makes sense to me. Now we have to be aware of fake stamped serial numbering. Great! Just what we needed.

[mess0312]

That second one for sure is a fake stamping......Donruss has never used that font or size. Shame on Beckett for grading that without calling that out.

[Hollywood42]

The second graded one definetly is way off on the numbering. Not centered vertically nor horizontally, and it's way different that the font/size on yours. I'd say you're ok

[labguy42]

They are both mine

[pwaldo]

They are both mine

Did you pull both? Or did you buy them from somebody?

[labguy42]

bought both. ungraded in 2002 graded one last week

[pwaldo]

bought both. ungraded in 2002 graded one last week

Does the seller have a story of where he got it?

[labguy42]

no story.