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Posted By: LJH

You make a good point that a cross-hatch (moire) pattern does not always "prove" that the card is a reprint. Let me try to clarify.

If the original card is a color lithograph (as with the T3), then it has always been my experience that it will produce a scan without the cross hatch.

However, if the original card (or a reprint of a lithograph) is printed using a process that uses a dot-pattern (sometimes referred to as a halftone), then the cross-hatch pattern is likely to occur in the scan when viewed on a computer monitor. An original E93, in effect, is a colorized halftone, and when viewed under magnification the dot pattern is readily seen. It is therefore subject to the cross-hatch effect even though it is an original vintage card.

Under magnification, you will not see such a dot pattern on a lithographed card such as an original T3, and therefore the scan produced from an original T3 will not show the cross-hatch pattern.

Hope this helps. --LJH