I was recently doing the typical picking of the cherries and stumbled upon this guy. I was doing a once over, then I spotted something going on down at the bottom. My initial instinct was to assume it was some sort of mark or stamp, then I looked a little closer and immediately moved my mouse over to the “Buy It Now” button. There was already a lot of heat on it with over 30 views, so I had little choice!
My initial guess was a Wet Sheet Transfer, so I started doing some research on here. I’ve never seen a T206 like this, but discovered there are some out there after digging. Once I stumbled upon this thread, I now believe this to be an Impression Cylinder Transfer. While looking through other threads I found the Gibson card that is shown below. (credit to atx840 for that, if you don’t want me using it just let me know) I find the names at the bottom on the back to be virtually identical in clarity and strength of color. It is my understanding that Wet Sheet Transfers are often less bold than what we see with these two examples. One thing that makes the Murray a little tricky is that it has the dark colored Polar Bear back along with the ever so common scrap stains. To my eye, I’m not picking up much of any image detail on the reverse. Maybe some brown in the white areas, but that might just be scrap stain. I’ve also read on here, if I understand correctly, that some believe that there was potentially two different ways of printing the brown. The first being with the image details and name/team in one pass, then at times it was done separately. Maybe that is what is going on here or it’s just hard to see and determine.
For the members that know a lot about the printing process, is my assumption correct that the Murray card is an Impression Cylinder Transfer?
Also, has anyone seen this anomaly on a Polar Bear back before?
Any other thoughts?
I know this doesn’t do much for most, but I find these oddballs to be interesting diamonds in the rough.
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