T206 Different Back

[bn2cardz]

I was looking through some T206's recently and noticed some oddities on my McGraw Glove at Hip. I only have one of these so I didn't know if it was normal for this particular card. Yet compared to all my other t206's it doesn't have a match.
I don't have more than 30 t206 cards and only 4 with a 350-460 back, so my sampling isn't large enough to know if this is normal. Yet when I look at online pictures of the same card I don't see this either.

I have all the scans at 1200DPI if anyone needs to see them closer up. I did my comparison scans to McGraw portrait with hat. This card also has a 350-460 back.

As you can see from the front scans the bottom name line is in a lighter ink color. I thought it could be a fade, yet it doesn't seem to affect other parts of the card.


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The 350-460 back seems to have bolder font on the "350-460" part.



Below is an overlap of the 350-460 text. The lighter "ghosted" part is the glove at hip card. I thought all the backs were printed off the same plates so that when the lines lined up the text should have lined up as well. When I saw that this one was so far off I did overlay comparisons of some 350 backs and they lined up just fine.

[atx840]

If you compare the back brands with other examples you will notice the series can shift slightly. I'm assuming that they kept the border and design of the back plate and only updated the series and factory #s as required.

[bn2cardz]

Ok. Again I have a very small sampling. The other ones I have similar backs to all line up and the font thickness is the same. So this one jumped out at me, along with it having a different color for the name/team.