That would absolutely be considered original artwork for the card! I went and looked at the Heritage auction description, and I think they seriously under described it! A "final pre-printing" sounds like a printed proof, and that's not what this is. I think the original sale price at the Topps auction (especially in 1989) was VERY high, and I think the price you got it at was pretty low! So hard to know with these true 1/1s - maybe the original buyer was a big fan of Kansas City sports, since he was with KC in this artwork, and had won the World Series managing the Royals (before his tragic passing) a few years prior to 1989.
Anyway, love these flexichromes - nice to see some folks share theirs!
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