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HankronA reprint of an Old Judge is no more a genuine Old Judge than a T-shirt with an image of Mona Lisa is the original Mona Lisa painting hanging in the Louvre. Irrelevent to an 'as is' tacked on at the end of a description, when someone wins in auction the Mona Lisa painting she had better as hell not get a Mona Lisa T-shirt from her mailman. If she does, I suspect that she will not shrug her shoulders and say, "Well, it did say 'as is,' so I guess I'm stuck with a $500,0000,0000 T-shirt." Simularly, when someone bids on a 1888 Old Judge, he better as hell not get a reprint. To me, it's the same situation as with the Mona Lisa, only smaller scale.