Miscut or Trimmed?
 

I recently received several T206's with very vivid coloring, but while the correct size, all obviously not factory cut. I thought they were trimmed, but then noticed the printers mark at the top of this one, also on the other sides but less noticeable - the ones on the right and left are actually quite dark, but don't show well because of the dark green background. I remember years back, seeing some that were horribly hand-cut, with printers marks, and also with back advertising, so I guess this isn't that unusual.

That is tape residue on the back, and those little lines on the right border are from the next back over.

http://runscott.homestead.com/Cards/...ProvPrint.jpeg

I wonder what people would pay if a printer's cross hatch appeared on a Tim Tebow card.

They would come from behind to score a big profit as time expired.

Snipes are the work of the righteous.

To be serious, the cross marks occasionally appear on regular T206s so they don't prove anything. They aren't common, but aren't incredibly rare either. The crosses on proofs are handwritten.

I'm not the board T206 expert, so someone else may have a different take.

I think....and I say this hesitatingly because you guys have figured out lots of stuff in the last 6 years that I didn't know then...that what we 'used' to believe was that the printer marks were darker on the earlier sheets, then practically (if not) gone altogether by the last ones. I am fairly certain that they were not hand-drawn on the proofs, as I owned proofs and they were not hand-drawn (mine were hand-cut, blank-backed).

Maybe they existed in hand-drawn and non-hand-drawn versions? (the hand-drawn ones coming first?). Someone must have some scans to post.

But I agree that they aren't at all rare - still, I save them when hand-cut, brightly inked, and the marks show, even if all these qualities are marginal (as in this one).

From the lack from response, I think little is know about them.

Typically, cross marks like that are used to line up colors.