Posted By:
Gilbert MainesI agree, the card is real.
The four color dot matrix on copied or otherwise recently produced fakes is so striking that it is unmistakable. You clearly see light blue dots and pink ones and yellow and black ones on the fakes.
Brad, e-mail me at identify7@peoplepc.com and I will send you a fake brown and a fake green w-517 for your reference. I do not have any Groves, but that won't matter.
Or look at a magazine, or any other printed material. It is all recent and the technology blends four inks to produce all colors. Formerly they had to use individual inks for each color which was produced. This yielded in some cases, seperate passes of the card which occasionally produced improperly aligned colors.
Edited to add:
Current printing technology can not produce ANY brown nor green dots.