[Ronnie73]

The little bits of registration lines don't mean anything to me, because I have a bunch of cards that still have visable areas. I don't think the print runs were super strict. If the tax code matched the next batch, the extra sheets just went into those piles to be cut into single cards and inserted into packs. This was during a time when they would avoid making a lot of waste. That's why there are cards with multiple printing passes from different plates and even different jobs. There's proof of that. I believe anything that didn't print right, was put to the side to dry, and then used to line up the future jobs, until there were so many ink passes, that you couldn't tell what was what anymore. As far as the full color No Print's, and the Yellow/Browns, They both didn't get their scroll overprint. Both types were produced during the same time period. They were both hand cut from a couple sheets each. I believe it was just a father that took a couple sheets right before they were being loaded into the printer to receive their overprint, and he probably ran a couple sheets with whatever was set up at that moment and took them home to his kids. The colors chosen, don't make sense, so why do it? Unless it was just for a workers kid. They had no value and missing some colors or a tax overprint, wouldn't mean anything to a kid back in 1911. No T206's are known with single color passes, like you can find on Topps cards from the 1960's and 1970's. Actual proof examples would resemble the eight southern league cards that were never issued that are owned by Keith Olbermann. There are also production cards that have the same exact registration marks, which were mockup's, also known as proofs, but these proofs are always full color, so I don't see the need to print single color passes, unless something was not printing correctly, and they needed to see each color one at a time. If they did, where are they? In 2011 I made a list of the cards that could exist with the missing overprint scroll. I figured they could exist if someone removed a sheet or two, before the overprint was applied, and then they took the sheet or sheets home with them. It took me 3 years to find my first two examples. You can even see on some of them where someone used a pencil to draw a grid, to help cut them into singles. If they were proofs and wanted them cut into singles, they would have just used the clamp with the cutting blade. No uneven cuts. It was just a guy trying to be a good dad to his kids. 112 years later, and many of the cards still exist. I guess we will have to wait to hear some other opinions.