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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Corey (and Scott and Joe, for that matter), please don't take my flippant earlier comment as disrespect toward any of you. In fact, Scott and I had a brief debate about this very issue on another board this week, and it was a pleasure to debate so civilly. So I didn't mean to sound disrespectful.

That said, my comment was based solely on my belief that printing these cards in 1950 would have been UNBELIEVABLY COMPLICATED, too expensive to do for a goof, virtually impossible to pass undetected by 67 years of experts, and highly unlikely to be done without leaving evidence.

On the other hand, printing up two or three sheets of make-ready sheets or proofs that were never cut down from the sheet until some time after 1909 is not only possible, but it's extremely likely. Because that's how printing works.

So, what I'm basically saying, is that the Wagners were cut from proof sheets with Occam's Razor.

-Al