Nice try Leon-- it's hard to land the big ones if you don't throw your line in the water.
I too found the c. 1926 suspicious--as if it was a hobby remake down the road where the maker was guessing as to when the initial card had been issued. I am also routinely skeptical about stamped-backs.
What did it for me was the seller's remark that the white blotches were part of the original photograph. I highly doubt they were, and while I don't collect the e121s, I have seen many and don't recall the Veach having that photo flaw--more importantly, the diagonal white line in the upper left part of the photo sure looks to me like this is a copy/photograph of another card that had a crease there, and the blotches were paper loss.
Hopefully the card disappears from the market or is least honestly listed as a repro/fake, although I won't hold my breath.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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