Perhaps I can shed some light on this issue. I assume the KR box resembles a bee playing card box? In my card collection I have a deck of KR playing cards from Hong Kong. They are a bee knock off deck featuring the bee diamond back and all of bee's standard artwork with 2 exceptions. The ace of spades has two bees and a flower in the middle of the spade instead of the honey comb swarming with bees. The rest of the ace is completely the same a real "Bee" ace and it still says consolidated dougherty. The jokers have been redraw - still a guy riding a bee, just different. They are thicker cards, some kind of paper with thick laminate and they have dimples, as if the manufacturer tried to reproduce the air cushion finish on bikes. They handle quite poorly though. I assume the high price is due to the fact that the seller knows of the collectible value to card collectors. Hope this helps.
- mav