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dennisscott you say "I have actually seen two Piedmont Wagners (one in person) where the owners BOTH told me they were 1950's reprints. The cards look identical to the ones considered period! Also, I have heard from several collectors over the years about these "1950's Piedmont Wagners".
if this were the case why don't these collectors come forward and prove to all that "the card" is a 1950's reprint? or why don't other owners of these reprints try to get them slabbed?, and then tell the "experts" it is in fact a reprint? if a good conditioned piedmont wagner sold for 86 K 7 years ago why wouldn't owners of these reprints come out and expose these as reprints? why is that collectors such as bray,gelman,carter et al did not know and report these reprints? if there were fakes in the hobby, shouldn't these leading collectors own one of these? i would think if these were reprints and old time collectors had access you would see alot more of them filtering into the hobby as there is a lot of $$$ to be had from their sale. but to add to this mystery, i do find it kind of strange that the piedmont wagner sold in 2001 by mastronet was not slabbed!seems hard to believe doesn't it?