This Ames card that I found on the internet is truly defaced. The one you have shown makes it seem instead like Red went in for a hair transplant procedure.
But on the serious side, I have not seen anything like it, but to me it seems that this is an ink stain, and not part of the printing process. Why it would then be graded as VG I am not quite clear about.
I would be interested to read what others think.
Brian
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