Let's see your (supposed to be red) ORANGE T206

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Posted By: Trae R.

Picked this guy up recently. What's your theory on orange T206?

Share pictures of your own!






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Posted By: Scott Levy

My thought is that the ink levels ran low giving it a ligher (read orange) strike.

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Posted By: JimB

I sold this a couple of years ago, but here is the scan.
JimB

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Posted By: Brian Collie

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Posted By: Dustin

I'm gonna start by saying I'm just getting started trying to build my t206 collection, still learning, and have a long way to go; so, you may want to take this with a grain of salt. lol I was doing some reading in Scot Reader's "Inside T206" guide, and he said when the cards were printed the colors were applied in the following order: yellow, black, brown, blue, green, and lastly red. If this is true, I feel like maybe it is because they ran out/ran low of the red ink at some process during the printing. Just a thought. - Dustin

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I have two "red" Cobb's with Orange backgrounds....one is real sharp and this one has a "snowflake" effect (due to chipping).

The RED ink was usually the last pass of the 6-color printing process. Many of these ORANGE cards are simply the result of
the printer's rushing the process and omitting the the last inking phase.

I also have Merkle, O'Leary, Snodgrass, and Tinker with Orange backgrounds.


I'm curious......my two Cobb's are Sweet Caporal 350 Factory #30......what are your ORANGE one's ?






TED Z

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Posted By: paulstratton

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Posted By: Paul S

(sorry, a little bored this evening)

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Posted By: Trae R.

Too funny, Paul!

Great cards, everyone!

So, if Ted's theory is correct we have "Missing Red Ink" cards. Cool!




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