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MWJim,
There is some validity to what you are saying since we know, based on available evidence, that Alan Ray was mistaken with respect to at least one important element of the card's condition/description. The light red printers' marks on the top of the T206 Wagner never vanished. They were there when Allan Ray owned it. They were there when the card was first auctioned by Sotheby's (see image below). And the last time I viewed the card (at the Anaheim National) the marks were still present.
The images from Lot 196 in the Copeland Collection/Sotheby's catalog from March 1991:
