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GlennI was the one who last asked about this card. The response below was by Scott Forrest.
"This was a forgery, not a reprint - the forgeries were made from a scan of a real card, which is why most have the same stain pattern. Gath Feldman was selling them and probably made them himself. I was too cheap to shell out the $70 or so it would have cost to get one in my hands. Garth sold them as copies, emphasizing that no one could tell them from the real thing. As predicted, they are slowly finding their way back into the market as "real". This guy, or whoever he bought it from, probably got the serial number from a real ebay auction and made a fake label that looked "good" enough in a fuzzy digital picture."
You can find the entire thread if you search posts for "Ruth #149" (with the "#" in the title) and sort by match rather than by date.