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Originally Posted by Volod
but don't know that it would be cheap and easy to produce a counterfeit of the quality of the white Musial. As SteveB pointed out, it would require a new print block and commercial quality printing press - a simple digital scan would not suffice. Unless someone can come up with documented evidence of the counterfeiting, I'll enjoy the card as a carefully preserved genuine article, thanks very much.
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Actually you wouldn't absolutely need a commercial quality press. For these it could be done with nearly anything, even a vise. It would be slow but it would work.
Making the block to print from with that sort of accuracy would be the problem. It's doable, but would take some time. Maybe a whole lot of time. The orange would be easy, the blue not so easy.
Someday I'll have to give it a try and see if I can get a decent result. Done in different colors and maybe with "reprint" added to the design of course to prevent problems. Maybe even a modern player instead.
I have a faked E121 that I got in 1978, and that would have required some professional equipment. So faking wheaties certainly would have been possible in 2002. It just seems like much too much effort for too little to produce a fake that nice. Seriously, aside from the difference in stock I don't see much at all that doesn't look just right.
Steve B