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scott brockelmanI have held and examined the card. It is 100% legit and is in fact printers scrap. It has another player with a press run printed on the front, I do not recall at this time who it is, but when I initially examined the card I matched the overprint with a player from the owners T206 set.
As it is printers scrap this explains the hand cut as well, as most T206 collectors know that the vast majority of printers scrap are handcut, as they never made final production. In fact if I were to reexamine it, I would check to make sure that the Wagner had all of the color runs as well, that may be what gives it a slightly different look.
As Jim B. stated above, IF someone was going to REPRODUCE, reprint is techically the wrong word in my eyes, a T206 Wagner in 1950 for his personal collection, WHY would they not have cut it straight and further protected it so that it remained in nice condition.
Again my feeling is that ALL of the Piedmont Wagners are printers scrap, nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps after the Wagner was pulled from production they had Piedmont Wagners left over and used them for press run tests on other cards for inking and such.
Scott