T205 Crop Mark?

[Cozumeleno]

I just bought a T205 last week and in looking at it yesterday, noticed what looks like a crop mark. While I've seen many on T206s, I haven't really seen them on T205s. Wondering about opinions if this is a crop mark or some other print flaw/scratch. I looked at it under magnification with my loupe, and it's clearly a print mark of some sort and not writing.

Just below it, there's also a line all the way on the bottom border. I'm guessing that might be the beginning of another card but not sure.

Does anyone have any T205s with crop marks or lines similar to this?

Thanks

[Brian Weisner]

You see these quite a bit on the Minor league cards... Here are a few of mine.






Be well Brian

[Jobu]

I am not a T205 expert, but these look like alignment marks and not crop marks. Alignment marks, like those see on many proofs (http://t206resource.com/Proofs%20Gallery.html), were guides for the printer to make sure that each layer was correctly registered and generally look like what you have shown. In this case they would have been covered by the now-missing gold layer before the cards were cut. Crop marks were to help guide the cutting of completed cards. Seeing as these T205 marks would have been covered by the gold layer, they would have been useless to guide cutting.

[Cozumeleno]

Thanks, guys - much appreciated

[Billy5858]

I'm def not an expert on T205's. But am collecting
The Minor Leaguers. I'm selling that
exact same graded Frick card on EBay
Right now. I noticed those little marks
at the bottom of the card. I thought maybe
they affected the grade of the card?
Also I notice even on high grade Minor
leaguers that the gold a Lot of times
Doesn't cover up the edges of card yet
it still gets a high grade. Is this just
The way the cards were designed. No chipped
edges but an all white clean un-gold edge.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Jobu

I am not a T205 expert, but these look like alignment marks and not crop marks. Alignment marks, like those see on many proofs (http://t206resource.com/Proofs%20Gallery.html), were guides for the printer to make sure that each layer was correctly registered and generally look like what you have shown. In this case they would have been covered by the now-missing gold layer before the cards were cut. Crop marks were to help guide the cutting of completed cards. Seeing as these T205 marks would have been covered by the gold layer, they would have been useless to guide cutting.

Good explanation....thanks