Looks like it was "painted" with a magic marker (especially if you look at some of the eBay pics where you can see the width of the "brush" stroke). Also somewhat visible on the front especially under the Access logo.
That's messed up. Wonder what really happened?
eBay pic of the back does show what could be smoke damage I guess, or something else that really took its toll on the finish, so they probably figured it would look better colored (with whatever they had laying around), then once they realized things weren't going to turn out well with the magic ink bath, it was too late to turn back.
They do need to get realistic on the price. I have to say though, if it was charred/smoke damaged, I would have valued it at about the same as the crap crayon job. It might even be better like that, because at least it doesn't constantly remind you of fire that way.
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