Thanks for the pointers to the article. Interesting...
In the end, the owners decided to soak the card in water, and in minutes it came apart, revealing the caramel card back hiding under the thin glued-on T206 back, and once and for all determining that it was definitely a caramel card (probably put together by a frustrated collector decades earlier who could not find a Wagner to complete his T206 set).
So it's not the same card as in the article but there seem to have been others made. Interesting that the article has sitings of these card(s) in 1957 and again in the 1970s. It's possible the one referenced in 1957 was the same one re-discovered in the '70s (as the article noted), but if the one in the '70s was soaked, then the one in the pics at the top isn't the same card, but rather another instance of the same rebacking tactic.
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