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Corey R. ShanusI hear what you're saying and I don't claim to have nearly the expertise you have to say you're wrong. However, conceptually, I don't understand why if somebody somehow had access to the original plates he could not by using the same inks and paper used in 1909 create undetectable duplicates, right down to the microscopic dot matrix pattern. As I see it, this is not like duplicating a Van Gogh where identity of painting style would be a prerequisite. Just like no two people sign their name exactly the same way, so too that no two artisits have identical painting styles. In the case of manufacturing a baseball card, though, what more to it is there than paper, ink and plates? So if someone in 1909 put in storage the plates, inks and paper to make T206's, and then removed them in, say, 1953, why couldn't he make undetectable reprints? And, if he did not save the inks and paper but someone had records of how they were manufactured and used the same manufacturing methods and ingredients to create the same inks and paper in 1953, why would the card look any different than how it looked if all this had been done in 1909? What am I missing in my analysis?