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runscott...and add that this was a joke before you examined it too closely. I got the photo from Walter Johnson's biography by Henry Thomas, added Sepia color,changed contrast, etc., then cropped the image and pasted over the other postcard image - I even modified two of the corners slightly. Though I didn't take the time to do it as well as could have been, this still illustrates the danger of buying on ebay from scans, not paying close attention to the "qualities" of the seller.
Also, I agree with you completely about grading postcards - I prefer the ones with "provenance" included on the back as well, but I can do without the USPS swervy black stamp lines on the front of some of them.