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Originally Posted by Tom Oates
Hot garbage. The relic usually doesn't match the bat/jersey/uniform depicted on the card, so I question the authenticity. i.e. the card shows a Yankee pinstripe jersey but the relic on the card is gray jersey piece or even a bat. If they really had the uniform in question, why substitute the pic or relic? It would be pretty easy to take an actual pic of the uniform you were cutting up for the cards.
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What a weird thing to question authenticity over. The picture on the card is virtually never of the jersey in the card for any game used cards. Why would you expect it to be? They license photos that they have access to, and they buy jerseys that are available on the market. Usually, they have no way of knowing what game it was used in and use that jersey for hundreds of cards. They aren't going to use the same photo for every card that jersey gets used in.
Interestingly, Leaf has allowed cameras into their factory and showed their game used section. They keep the authentication of each jersey with all the pieces as the jersey slowly gets chopped up for different sets. That's a transparency we don't often get in this hobby.
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