the story as ive been told behind these morarch test presses is.......sousann was going to boot lillie bryant, got to the test press stage, when someone beat him to it with the red boots, so sousann shelved the project. bootleg or not, there cant be more than a dozen of these in existance, ive got a monarch test pressing of betty fikes - "prove it to me" which has identical deadwax info to the red southbound boot