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10-12-2004, 05:21 AM
Posted By: <b>PASJD</b><p>Shouldn't this card have a line on the left border corresponding to the line on the right?<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1097579820.JPG">
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10-12-2004, 07:35 AM
Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>I suspect the line is actually there. But if not, you have to be forgiving, after all it's the first one they graded!!
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10-12-2004, 08:11 AM
Posted By: <b>PASJD</b><p>Note how on the bottom third of the scan the line is there. Something is weird.
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10-12-2004, 08:42 AM
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I think it might be a rare proof?
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10-12-2004, 09:23 AM
Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>Its not odd to see part of the black line border missing on t206s.Ive seen and have plenty that are missing part of the line somewhere around the border of the picture.It can range from what you have to just small spots where theres a break in the line.Its nothing more than a printing flaw
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10-12-2004, 10:26 AM
Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>Check out the "11" in the title on the tab, or really any of the lettering.
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10-12-2004, 04:27 PM
Posted By: <b>PASJD</b><p>The fact that the line is there on the bottom third of the card suggests to me that the rest of it appearing to be missing is not a result of a bad scan. How would a scan just eliminate a black line like that, and why wouldn't it make the rest of the card look odd too? I am not saying you aren't right, it just strikes me that that is likely not the explanation.
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10-12-2004, 04:47 PM
Posted By: <b>Brian Weisner</b><p><br /> PASJD, <br /> Your answer is 2 post up by John. This type of printing error is common on T206's and isn't anything to get exited or worried about. <br /><br /> Be well Brian
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10-13-2004, 04:14 PM
Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>"The fact that the line is there on the bottom third of the card suggests to me that the rest of it appearing to be missing is not a result of a bad scan."<br /><br />This is not a high resolution scan. As I said, please look at the number "11" in the tab at the top of the grading slab. The two numbers were written by GAI in the same font, but yet one of them looks thinner than the other. Why is that? Did GAI suddenly swith to Arial Wide when making the second 11? No. It's obviously a scan distortion. And that scan distortion will mess with all of the rest of the image in ways which make it look like information is missing. <br /><br />What I suspect happened is the card was scanned at a very very very slight angle, and the image posted was not of very high quality. Indeed, it had to be a relatively small file size to make it onto ebay. So, information is lost when reducing the file size. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising or strange or bizarre that a thin vertical black line would be missing at the top, but not at the bottom if the card was scanned at a slight angle. Did you ever draw with your computer pain program a diagonal line? Well, likely your line turned out to be a series of vertical and horizontal lines. It's like that. Only here, the image missed one of those vertical lines at the top of your diagonal line. Does that make sense? I'm not explaining myself very well...<br /><br />Low quality scans are low quality because they reduce information like lines. I believe that's the issue here. Not that the card is missing a line half way down the left side. <br /> <br />
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10-13-2004, 04:37 PM
Posted By: <b>MW</b><p>It appears to be the quality of the image.