Jantz, I agree with you as far as today's water, and 100 year old dried ink. The cards are soaked with virtually no bleed. (Although I do think there's a slight bleed if soaked for days.)
Put some old, ragged T206s in your pocket and splash a bit of kerosene on there. Kids would not have been around gasoline, much, in 1910. Kerosene was all around. I think with kerosene on fairly recent ink you get a different result.
It seems an amazing coincidence that a wet sheet, placed atop another, would align so that the wet transfer exactly matched up, card for card. Such a transfer seems more likely from card to card, after they were cut.
Anyone with such a card wants it to be a 'wet sheet transfer', so that's what they'll see it as, whether it is or isn't.
Last edited by FrankWakefield; 01-21-2010 at 06:28 AM.
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