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Al C.risafulliI'm curious as well. How could they reproduce the artwork so faithfully as to not be detectable by experts - identical artwork, identical typefaces, and randomly changing numbers - without owning the original printing plates? What technology existed in 1950 that would enable people to make virtually identical artwork but change some information on the backs (the Piedmont on the Wagner, the numbers on the Goudeys), while being otherwise completely undetectable?
I mean, they'd have to have access to the exact same typefaces, lay them out exactly the same way, with exactly the same spatial relationships between all the letters, borders, and artwork. It would have had to be absolutely perfect in every way so as to be undetectable.
And wouldn't they have had to print entire SHEETS of these cards? I mean, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't have been economical for a bunch of guys, just messing around, to create an entire sheet of, say, 33 Goudey Durochers, using identical stock to the '33 Goudeys, identical ink, and then print just a handful, with 4 colors on the front and green on the back.
No? Or am I misunderstanding?
-Al