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Runscott- fits his m.o., although these aren't quite as nice as the old "Tuttles". But as pointed out, it's very easy to find a seller's auction history on Yahoo, and it should be intuitively obvious even to the most casual of observers that "bluegrassboy" is repeatedly selling the same forgeries. So I think the bidders are buying these items for re-sell, to rip people off.
At one point, a single seller had something like 6 or 7 '52 Mantles being sold as "unauthenticated", at the same time, on Yahoo - it did not stop people from bidding. I think the going price for a nice forgery was about $70. The same cards are then re-sold on ebay for quite a bit more.