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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I don't know if " Leaf intended to block out the "c" ".

But what I do know......
is that the Leaf cards were printed using a 5-color process that applied two shades of BLUE ink. And, on many Leaf
cards the darker blue ink application (that followed the light blue pass) was omitted.

For those of you that were not convinced of this with my two Stan Musial cards in my prior post, here are some more
Leaf cards that hopefully will illustrate my explanation of the above Edwards card.

Here we have the very same effect on these two Joe Gordon cards (also Cleveland). The card on the left is a normal
Leaf Gordon card.
The one on the right is missing the final dark blue ink application....and therefore, the "C" is visible.


Likewise for these Bob Dillinger cards. The card on the left is he normal one and the card on the right is a color error.


These Mizell Platt cards illustrate without a doubt that the Dark Blue ink was the last color applied in Leaf's printing
process.






TED Z