The plates wouldn't have been saved. Especially if they were printing from stones, those were commonly resurfaced and reused for whatever was next.
What would be saved would be the original halftones, which were most likely photographic negatives. And if there were any, the transfers used to layout the plates. Possibly the plates used to print the transfers, but that's less likely after four years.
It's possible they used some leftover NY transfers, or had only retained the NY halftones.
The point chris made about the underlaying NY being on two different colors is a good one. And it's probable that one showed the NY stronger than another. One thing that has struck me is that it seems the STL t206s are always a bit lighter in the uniform than other versions. So they may have used the weak halftone and further underexposed it to make the master plate for the PB version. Then later they didn't do this for the coupons.
The Rudolph is interesting, Obviously they had the T206 halftones still around 6 years later. But why? They had already taken a good deal of effort to remove the toronto from the jersey as much as 5 years earlier. You can see from the lack of shading that they did it the hard way for the TOR, but simply erased all the shading for the rest of the uniform. Maybe they were just lazy? Use up whatever transfers or use whatever halftone they found first and don't worry about the old team name?
There isn't really any white ink used. It's the color of the paper surface. It's most likely a coated stock using a surface coating that was mostly clay with maybe some white lead mixed in.
Steve B
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