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04-12-2008, 03:36 PM
Posted By: <b>Brad Green</b><p><br />Recently I was looking at the image registration of the four 1933 Goudey Lefty Grove cards that I have. I was amazed to see that all four of the cards have different image registration. (See the scan below.) The image registration of the card on the bottom left appears to be perfect. The registration on the card on the top left is off, as Lefty's teeth appear above his upper lip. The two cards on the right are very similar in registration, but not nearly as clear and vibrant as the image on the bottom left.<br /><br />It got me thinking. There are at least five different colors on the card (green, blue, brown, red and white). Perhaps there are others (gray?). For a card to have perfect image registration, all five colors would have to be put perfectly onto the card. Apparently, the odds of this happening were small in 1933. Can anybody explain how the different colors were put on these cards? Was the card moved through the printing process and a different color was put on at a different point along the way? Or was the card held fixed during production with each color being added to the stationary card? It seems like the latter method would give the overall best card registration.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.bandkgreen.net/lefty_grove/1933_goudey_net54.jpg"><br />