Hey Jim,
Thanks for posting yours. If my card had actually been bleached or sitting in the sun too long, I think it would look like yours - completely faded with barely ledgible caption. The photo on mine is still pretty dark though and the caption, while blue, is still ledgible.
Barry, I think what you're seeing at the bottom is where the card darkens back to red a little bit. Not really swirls. My orange borders actually do the same thing where they darken back up at the tips and edges of the card.
Scott's point about faulty gloss has some credibility though. The pink border that I have is missing any gloss it might have had. So what we can hypothesize is that the card faded while in storage over time and one day, came out pink from whatever box, binder, closet, etc... it was in because during the original print run, the gloss coating on the card was either faulty or wasn't applied properly?
Makes sense, this is the first time I'm seeing these cards in a pinkish sort of hue though. Scott, you say you've seen several of these?
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