Posted By:
Joe D."But I'm just having a hard time believing that this was a deliberate attempt to defraud."
If this was not deliberate then it is the most incredible, fortuitous, luckiest cropping, color enhancing, crease fading, and crease removal I have ever seen for an item that was scanned (or photographed) to be printed in a catalog.
I am a printer by occupation.
In fact, I am second generation printing professional. I have been around the profession since childhood.
I have personally scanned thousands of images for printing, have handled thousands of other customer supplied scans for printing. Have seen retouching / cropping / color enhancing for many many years.
I have a very hard time believing that anyone can look at the SCP photo and think the result was not DELIBERATE.