Occam's Razor
I find the Herp conversation humorous.
Occam's Razor states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.
Using Occam's Razor here is what we are left with.
Facts: A gentleman has them for sale and when asked he states they are not real.
Brian's assumptions:
1)They guy knew what he had
2)The guy had a printer
3)The guy had access to vintage paper
4)the guy had access to vintage ink
5)the guy only printed 1 or 2 sets to sell at a single show
6) this guy knew about other images to use that weren't known to the rest of the hobby until future discoveries in other sets
The counter assumptions:
1) The guy didn't know that the cards were real and thought they were fake
Using Occam's Razor it is easy to go with the fact the cards are real.
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