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The ink on these common National Game reprints is brown not black. But the best universal reprint identification test for rounded corner cards (factory cut rounded corner cards, that is) is to compare the corners to the corners of a genuine card. The reprints corners are usually clearly and significantly different (smaller, larger, different curve) in comparison. And that is the case with the common brown ink National Game reprints.

Cards that are die cut into non-rectanglular shapes, including round cards, are easier to identify as authentic, because it's hard to exactly and neatly duplicate the die cut-- especially by scissors or papercutter. It's easy to make a rectangle on your papercutter, but a Scrapps or Colgan's Chip, not so much. The reprints of the National Game cards were factory made, so the cut is neat, but they didn't even try to duplicate the curve of the corners.