Am I seeing that right? The dent is pushed into the back? Do the others seem dented too?
If so that's the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. I'll have to do some thinking to figure out how that happened. Do the others seem dented too?
Before you showed the others I figured it was a bit of debris getting dragged across the blanket while light blue was printing. And finally getting ground into the stock. But that wouldn't be recurring and wouldn't dent the back.
Some have a bit of a shadow around them almost like a big fisheye. But that shouldn't cause the back damage.
And a bit of debris on the impression cylinder which would cause the dent shouldn't affect the inking on the front at all.
A piece that damaged the plate ......Ah, that's a possibility. A bad gouge or dent into the plate will hold ink and print. And if that debris damaged the blanket too, it might emboss the card. But that doesn't make sense either. The impression cylinder should be steel. So it wouldn't emboss. towards the front.
The only options that work are so far out there they make no sense. And they'd totally change how T206 production is viewed if there's any evidence of it. I'll have to really start looking into the presses Hoe made for lithography.
Fascinating card in a lot of ways.
Steve B
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