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Posted By: E, Daniel

Two things about the Calendar Ruth card.

A. It wasn't very good and was instantly judged a fake the minute anyone with hobby experience held it in hand.

B. And as a one off, printed on white stock, with only black (or blue - can't remember) as the printing color, there was nothing to compare it to or colors to be judged against....and even then everybody thought it was crap upon inspection.

So when a freak one-off card (that many would WANT to be real and have the chance at making a 'find' of) can be quickly discounted for authenticity, how does one in full blazing color known intimately by so many hobbyists manage to reproduce the 'magic' of the original printing and pass itself off?
Its not like you could print half a dozen to make retiring money off of, the hobby would be incredibly suspicous if more than one or two fresh wagners or planks turn up in the next 10 years I would think.

It does make me wonder though, if somebody REALLY wanted to reprint something in the hopes of passing it off as real, a black and white card would certainly be a tougher example to discount - especially over the internet.




Daniel