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Posted By: Corey R. shanus

Thanks for the response. What you say makes a lot of sense. Certainly I can understand how inks and paper chemically can change over the years, and as a practical matter be unusable many years later if the sole purpose is to create undetectable reprints. And I also hear your point that modern manufacturing methods would result in papers and inks different enough from those made years ago through cruder manufacturing processes, once again preventing the reprints from being undetectable. The only caution I have to all this is that given the extraordinary economic incentive to create the perfect Wagner reprint (right down to the microscopic dot matrix pattern), I wonder if somehow somebody could recreate the primitive manufacturing processes necessary to create ink and paper identical in all detectable aspects to those used in 1909. I'm not saying it would be easy, nor even possible, only that with a successful outcome you've just created a multi-million dollar card. Certainly gives counterfeiters a lot of incentive to try.