Kevin, thanks for explaining that makes a little more sense now. I had no idea that you could remove color from cards with precision that way. I thought the only real method was soaking, which sort of takes all color away consistantly and with no accuracy.
Leon, the card has been in the same holder since Jim bought it back in 2004. Link is below. I'm not a big fan of sending cards in for grading, have never had an account with SGC or PSA, and probably haven't sent a card in for grading in close to a decade. I guess I could consider it now though since circumstances seem to call for it.
http://www.oldjudge.com/archive/2004...ll/graded/176/
A question though, if this is done with chemicals and not by shaving or sanding the color away, how can it be done to match the curves of the card precisely? Mordecai's silhouette seems to be perfectly shaped still.
Also for the colors themselves, I figure the brown started with a dark green color pass for the background and then added a layer of yellow to lighten the green to the point where it's the bright green you see normally on the e93 Brown. But if you're removing color with chemicals, how does the chemical seek out only the yellow from the paper but leave the dark green? His sleeves also had the lightest grey out of all the spots where you saw a grey or black but you still see a lot of the light grey remaining, where as areas of darker grey, like the "C" on his chest, are completely gone.
Final question, did this ever come up on the board before or discuss it with Jim? Seems like I saw Jim post pictures of this card several times over the years but nobody ever said anything about it before now.