"It looks pretty professional to me and I would have bet it was done that way by maker. In fact, I guess I did bet it was real, as I paid $50 for it [g]."

You got ripped.
The red stickers Rudy put on in 92 looked pretty good also. He used a hair dryer on each one.
The red stickers were made by BJ who knew what the Shoe was going to do. You must have missed the line about the Shoe getting a lot of "Heat" for altering a previous "approved" chip.