Anyone ever see any printing gaffes, handcut cards or other errors from the e103 set?

[shammus]

From what I gather, this appears to be a pretty clean set without any errors, variations, overprints on the back, etc.. that I've ever seen at least. Was just curious if anyone else has ever noticed anything unusual.

On very rare occasions, you'll see one with oversized borders like this Donovan here. Makes me think there may have been some sort of advertising panel or box that Williams Caramel might have produced to advertise their candy. Of course, someone could have just simply pulled a perfectly good sheet off the press and decided to manually cut up the cards instead.

The lower part of the Donovan is actually consistant with the normal width of these cards. The top half however is significantly oversized. So, this isnt a diamond cut, in fact, it's more of a "trapezoid cut" which you don't see on cards too often. That combined with the wavy look of the borders makes me think that there are a few handcut examples out there at least. They'd have a blank back of course, but since the regular issued cards also have blank backs, these examples can be harder to spot.

I've also noticed a couple tiny nuances such as the Dooin tends to be a really dark maroon instead of the bright red color. In addition, every so often an e103 will turn up in a lighter shade of red, maybe even almost pink in color. Almost as if the printer was getting a little low on red. Aside from those minor things, there doesn't appear to be much but I'm curious what you all think....

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