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Originally Posted by kemdawg
I ran the smell test and they smell just like any other card from the 1960's - nothing unusual there. I also looked at them closely under a loupe. The Willey shows the print dots on his head but there is no evidence of any other printing around the card. The interesting thing to note is that the face and hair of Willey are completely intact. I actually don't think this is a chemical thing as the level of detail someone would have had to put in to make this as clean is it is would have been daunting. For example, I can literally see some of the wisps of his hair and then empty white space in between under the loupe. The Brosnan card is a bit different as you can see as it does have more coloring and background on it. Lastly, the surface is relatively clean, meaning it looks like any other surface from a 1962 issue (in GD to VG condition granted). My instinct is that this is simply a printing defect but I've just never seen this before on any issue ever.
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I agree, that would be near impossible to accomplish using a chemical.