Vintage T-Shirt Forum & Community Authentication Appraisals

I feel I have a basic enough knowledge of vintage tees to take a tag and combine that with other factors to tell most of the time if a shirt is vintage or not. Unfortunately this shirt is missing a tag and I just don't have enough experience with Star Wars memorabilia. What do you think? Is this authentic??? Thank you!

Hard to tell from here what type of print it is - but it kinda looks like a screen print trying hard to look like an old heat transfer print.

what type of print is it?

we do have one expert - though he doesnt login often.

this is definitely heat press. correct me if I'm wrong, but a heat press is an actual imaged literally pressed onto the shirt and will be slightly raised, where a screen print has the dye actually in the fabric.

The image is definitely raised and the parts that look 'aged' are literally areas where the heat press is missing, I can even see t shirt 'fuzz' sticking out of the age cracks. Not sure if it's possible to deliberately create that effect with a heat transfer?

pretty much but a screen sits on the fabric too. transfers are pressed on as one piece and have a different rubbery texture.

either way, unless this is some obscure design - transfers arent usually worth much. because they deteriorate and in a lot of cases there are stacks of them floating around and old ones are still being printed today. But if its original? hopefully the SW guy will chime in...

Well, I've never seen this particular design but I'm 99.9% sure this is a contemporary shirt and most likely sold recently through either a Target/Walmart type store or a t-shirt website like redbubble.com or the ilk.

*Just to clarify, I meant recently as in the last 10-15 years so it could be "vintage" in that sense but I highly doubt it dates from the 70s-80s. Like JimmyJ stated, the transfer shirts, even vintage ones, do not regularly command a lot of money for tons of them were produced. Most of the short run (cast and crew) or bootleg shirts are the most desirable.

Here is a link to a massive Star Wars t-shirt thread on Rebelscum:

http://forum.rebelscum.com/showthread.php?t=1045259

You can peruse the pages there and see if you can locate it. Also, maybe do an image search on google.

~Steve