Old Judge Pete Browning

As many of you guys probably noticed, a notoriously tough N172 Pete Browning just sold on ebay for $886. This card is on many advanced OJ collectors' want lists, so I figured it might go quite a bit higher than it did. Here's the link.

The coloring and texture of the card looked "off" to me. Maybe others were thinking the same way, given the relatively low auction result. Could also have been the poor scan though - makes it hard to tell.

Your thoughts? Just how scarce is the Browning Old Judge anyway?

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It looked like a really poor fake to me. Everything about it is "off". Admittedly, I was watching it, and hope the best for whomever got it, but it looks bad.