I wonder if some T205 variations represent someone trying to file away a problem without resetting the type. If the Sweet Cap 42 red “W. A. Latham” came first and someone decided to file away the “W.” for future printings, maybe we might see something like this as an Honest print run and a Polar Bear print run follow with various degrees of incomplete filing.
I don’t know enough about how the type was set to guess how easy it would have been to reset the type versus try to file away the bit you don’t like.
I also wonder if the Latham PB with the “W” is comparable in rarity with the Moran PB stray line, which might indicate that they shared a print run.
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