I believe all of these caption errors are from the transfer used to lay out then stone not transferring completely.
They would be identifiable positions from the sheet, which is how I separate variations and errors. I prefer the term variety, as so far it indicates something that happened regularly because of the plate having a difference, but isn't major enough to be recognized as a variation. Errors to me are things that happened haphazardly.
They're interesting, and I might collect a few if I had the money. But 1000+ just seems unreasonable.
I'm also of the opinion that every position on the plate will be slightly different, and trying to collect them all would be mostly insane.
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