Those T206's are excellent examples of this. The large number of 'orange' cards that are only partly orange and show exactly how they came to be orange is further evidence that almost none of the orange cards are misprints or anything but heavily damaged.
There are other color changes that happen naturally through storage and environment too, before we even get to the doctors. Jones here is not a freaky misprint, he was just glued down. A lot of cards glued to something have front and/or back discoloration resulting from it. Some of these cards have been soaked free cleanly and then get sold as wild misprints or errors, lacking the direct evidence on the card itself that it didn't come out the press this way. The vast majority of them are also just heavily damaged cards.
P.S. I just love that Fielder Jones, the manager of perhaps the only fielding-over-hitting WS winning team, was actually named Fielder.
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