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T206Collector...just skeptical. I am happy you were able to find out about early 20th Century printing techniques and how to use black lights. The more education the better. No one is questioning that more education about reprint techniques is a good thing, absent the motive to commit fraud. And no one is questioning your interest in your own reprint, absent the motive to similarly commit fraud. It is your motive in each case that is in question.
But putting aside all concerns about your motivation, the person who created your reprint was probably acting illegally, in terms of copyright, right of publicity and/or fraud laws. For these reasons alone the person who created your reprint does not want to be known. And for these reasons if you ever found out who it was, that person might not be particularly happy with you. But maybe that is your point because you are trying to find the person so that you can sue him to recover whatever you paid for it.
I guess at the end of the day it is hard for me to buy that you are interested in the technology of reprints just for the greater good of growing your own mind. But if you are then I certainly did not mean to offend you either.