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Originally Posted by brianp-beme
After looking at it under some magnification and at angles, with a little more touchy feely action, those extra white areas seem to be missing the top layer of paper, almost as if having been scraped away. The fact that these areas are so white still make me think the card was subject to some sort of whitening bath, something that did not adversely affect the background coloration.
And like I mentioned previously, the back is much less bold than what my scan seems to have made it, leading me to believe the card was at one time used as a floatation device.
Brian
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Even here along the border Brian? It looks like maybe some of the pieces that "flaked off are stuck in this area.
You might be right about some kind of chemical that it was soaked in that caused some areas to "flake" off I've seen T206's that were "flaking" that if you wanted to you could probably remove most of the image.
What does caption area look like because as you said there are areas where you can see faint letters.
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