Hi All,
I was lucky to get ahold of a beautiful Ancestral Recall a couple of weeks ago, and when doing my macro pics, I noticed the print dots at the bottom that go past the black bottom line.
(You really have to zoom to see the small color dots in the black line, and past it...
I know that the Unlimited has many print defects, and that all color layers were added one on top of the other and sometimes not perfectly aligned, so was wondering if I should be nervous about those dots ... I know that finding color dots in the black borders of an alpha or beta is immediate sign of fake...
And at the price you must pay to get a second of those to compare, thought I'd use the forum's knowledge before !!
Hi Again,
I think that now that I had a doubt, it's hard to get it off my mind !
So tonight I went through my collection, and spotted something interesting.
2x Unlimited Counterspell, Blue Uncommon, in every single edition of MTG since 93, no real reason to do any fakes of that !!
Then I noticed that one of the 2 looked like it also had the "misalignment" of the layers.
So I made again macro pics of the 3 cards side by side ...
I am starting to think that everything is real, went with jeweler's magnifier, light test, the macro pics...
I was lucky to get ahold of a beautiful Ancestral Recall a couple of weeks ago, and when doing my macro pics, I noticed the print dots at the bottom that go past the black bottom line.
(You really have to zoom to see the small color dots in the black line, and past it...
I know that the Unlimited has many print defects, and that all color layers were added one on top of the other and sometimes not perfectly aligned, so was wondering if I should be nervous about those dots ... I know that finding color dots in the black borders of an alpha or beta is immediate sign of fake...
And at the price you must pay to get a second of those to compare, thought I'd use the forum's knowledge before !!
Thanks
Dave
Front :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0S0PqKi5708NmI4VV9EQ1U3NUE
Back :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0S0PqKi5708NGF4UnlZRW9ET3c
I think that now that I had a doubt, it's hard to get it off my mind !
So tonight I went through my collection, and spotted something interesting.
2x Unlimited Counterspell, Blue Uncommon, in every single edition of MTG since 93, no real reason to do any fakes of that !!
Then I noticed that one of the 2 looked like it also had the "misalignment" of the layers.
So I made again macro pics of the 3 cards side by side ...
I am starting to think that everything is real, went with jeweler's magnifier, light test, the macro pics...
Anyone's opinion on the topic ?
Front Bottom : (ancestral is the back card)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Z4KWLuPC14zh9r5gYeJAG0UeUCiLGd5E
Front Top : (obvious where it is ;o)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vPSNgZvHFuwhpdsxle65sJycMz03VrPw
Top Side View for the Cores : (ancestral in the middle)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fJEZMmFuWhRnrJmwM4fq79JDWo1aW1sB