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Posted By: J Hull

Nice observation, Brian. (keep them coming)
Beyond the interesting issues of timing and sequence, it raises the question of how/why the "dove" is visible. I don't know an awful lot about printing techniques, but one thing that I notice looking at the scans is that it seems like there's a layer of dark blue ink on the "dove" card that isn't there on the "normal" version. On the P350 I listed, the registration's slightly off left to right, and the ink color used for the sky is clearly sky blue (seen up and down the overlapped left edge). The sky blue over yellow creates the green "grass" in the background.
Your "dove" card's registration is off enough top to bottom and left to right to show a separate layer of dark blue over the sky blue base layer. It's also particularly and obviously visible on Ritchey's elbow.
That dark blue ink definitely strikes me as change in the production/printing process and not as any kind of freak printing occurrence.

Jamie