I feel like people overthink this set.
Bond Bread didn't print the cards, they simply bought the cards from a printer and used them. The original issue is on thicker stock and pretty easy to tell it is original.
The cards from the "find" are on old paper stock, not paper stock from the 1980's. They are left over stock from the 1940's or early 1950's. I don't know why collectors would shy away from them, they are legit 1940's-1950's cards.
I don't think that I have ever seen any that were actually printed in the 1980's.
If anything is a more modern fantasy piece, it is the exhibit issue. I wonder when these first appeared in hobby publications. They photos are grainy as if they are just enlarged versions of the smaller cards and the card stock is similar to the reprint exhibit cards that entered the hobby in the 1980's.
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