Happy Holidays Dan-- hope Santa left you a Tip-Top or two under the tree.
As for this monstrosity, it actually has less of a space than most reprints, at least judging from the lousy scan. This thing does not even appear to be a fixed-up Fritsch reprint, which reprint was at least authorized. It is a hacked copy from some other source or just an outright fake that someone thought looked more legitimate with a hand-cut edge or two and a minute or so in a toaster.
I have trouble having much sympathy for anyone who would buy a 5-6 figure card without doing their own homework, but I suppose a fraud is a fraud is a fraud. If I had a dollar for every bogus Ruth offered on ebay I could probably afford to buy a real one. I see from the description that the seller is either fairly savvy as to vintage cards and/or else lifted his description from an informed site--- either way it shows he should know better.
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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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