I think something 'happened' to the card, I don't think it was in the cigarette pack like that.
I think that whatever affected the surface also affected the ink, leaching out some red, leaching the black down to blue.
I'm not recalling what the back of my piece of one was like. I wonder if someone soaked it with vinegar or something, to remove it from a scrapbook, maybe. I do know it was the first T210 I ever soaked, I had no idea if T210s would soak or not, and didn't want to find out on an entire T210... this was in the days before internet, collectors interacted face to face or via the mail.
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