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Posted By: Elliot

The Green Ruth is the hardest of the Ruth (in the Goudey set) to detect the reprints from the real ones. On the real ones the red border lining up (like Frank has talked about) is closest to lining up in most cases, but still does not line up perfectly like the reprints. Additionally, for whatever reason, there are fewer of the real ones with bleed through compared to the other Ruths. Part of this is the lighter background color, but it does not explain why the red bottom border does not have the "bleed-through". One other thing to look for is that on the real ones the hat appears to continue into the white border, even if it doesn't actually do so. On the fakes, it appears to be much more of an abrupt cut-off.

If you do an ebay search, I think you will find more of the reprints than real ones, and some have sold for significant amounts. I guess feldman has been real busy.