Possible new discovery - t210 Series 5 PINK border

[shammus]

Got a large group of t210s in the mail today. As I was happily going through them, I found this card of Roth with entirely pink borders. Just thought I'd throw this up on the board to see if anyone had seen anything like this before and if people thought it was a new printing variation that we hadn't seen yet or if the card might be bleached either chemically or by the sun.

I'm leaning more towards a printing variation rather than being bleached for a few reasons -

1. The caption is a bright blue color. This indicates to me that color passes might have been missing during this cards initial print run. Captions on t210s, even orange variations, are normally black. Bleaching a card wouldn't turn it's font blue I wouldn't think.

2. The photo itself doesn't appear to be any different in tone and clarity from the rest of the cards I have. I threw a few other cards in the scan so you could all get an idea.

3. The back is perfectly normal. As with t210 orange borders, there's no differences in color or otherwise on the card's reverse.

4. This is a set already known for it's printing gaffes. Orange borders, yellow borders, oversized borders, etc.... So I suppose having a different shade of border color show up isn't too much out of the question. I threw a couple other "misprints" in the scan as well - one of my orange borders and then the Reis card which also arrived today. NOtice the oversized right border but it's actually missing it's left border. Kind of neat.

Any thoughts?

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