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hankronLamination makes things tricky, and likely will mean you will want to get someone knowledgeable to look at it in person.
Under a microsocope, modern lithograph or computer reprints of most 19th and early 20th century baseball items (including 1933 Babe Ruth Goudeys) are quickly identified by the modern multi-color pattern ink dots (cyan, yellow, magenta, black(. This multi-color pattern will be just like on a modern trading card, picture postcard and the Grand Canyon postcard you just got from aunt Carla.
If you take a microscope to cover of the closest 2004 magazine, you will be seeing what a reprint of a 1933 Goudey Ruth, T206 Honus Wagner, 1880s Allen & Ginter poster or 1874 Boston Bostons tobacco label looks like.