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davidcyclebackHere's relevant information for your research.
1) I do not know, but I was under the impression one of the owners of the original strip made repints and sold them. If so, I guess it would be his way to promote it or make some extra bucks.
2) Offhand, it would would seem unlikely that yours is a screenprint. They do use screenprinting to make posters and prints, but it's relatively expensive and I don't know why someone would choose this process to make baseball card reprint ... And, no, an original 1909 strip would not have been a screenprint.
3) Lithography used to make modern cards could be called a 'screen process,' as it uses screens to make all those little dots.
4) If your reprint is a lithograph and if #1 is true, than it likely originated from #1. Due to expence and required print run, the average eBay reprinter wouldn't make lithographs.
Unless it's something like a serial numbered Topps insert edition or the cover to the Hall of Fame dinner menu, a modern reprint of a T206 Wagner or 1933 Goudey has minimal value on the market. Trying to find the source of a reprint can be good clean fun, but will likely have little effect on it's market value. Several official organizations have reprinted the T206 Wagner-- including Wagner's estate, for the promotion of the PSA8 card and Fan Fest (I think)--, and these cards are worth a few bucks on the market.