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Posted By: Bob

Jim- I agree, too, that had an orange color been contemplated in the E94 set surely there would be a 2nd orange Speaker or a second orange Devore, etc. found. I believe all cards in the E94 set have been accounted for with an orange background except McGraw, Kleinow and Magee. The odds would be astronomical that all these cards came from one sheet so they must have come from one print run (?)
Playing devil's advocate, though, if you examine the color of the background on the oranges it doesn't look anything like the orange background on the E98s or E97s or even the T206s. If is a very distinct orange color which leads to the conclusion that perhaps an orange was originally planned but the color wasn't attractive enough and the print run destroyed. Perhaps the olive green was susbtituted for the orange as all the other colors are pretty "chippy" like the bright red, green, blue, violet, forest green and yellow (gold)colors. guess we'll never know.
And yes, there must have been an entire sheet of gray backgrounds printed which left off one of the colors and the sheet then scrapped and Brian's card was the sole survivor from the bin.
tbob