Ink Colors used in T206

[t206hound]

I'm curious as to what color or color combinations yield the "flesh" tone on T206 cards. Any thoughts?

I ran across an article long ago that states that there were six color layers for T206 cards. In order: yellow, black, brown, blue, green, red.

There was a recent thread where it was speculated that there were more colors:

Originally Posted by steve B

The process was more than 6 colors, at least for some printings. The ones not usually recognized are in Italics.
Yellow, black, brown, blue, light blue, dark green, red, pink, Gray/tan
I'm positive about blue/light blue being two individual passes, as well as red/pink. I'm less certain about gray/tan. That one could be part of the brown pass which sometimes is more gray.
Here's the upper right corner of Batch showing blue/light blue clearly.

Steve B

Originally Posted by mkdltn

There is a color called Buff as well-its the flesh tone.

[drc]

Interesting question. You'd have to out your magnifier and examine some cards. Just now looking at some online pictures, it's clear they used multiple color inks on faces, not including any black.

[mrvster]

Erick...

Your card is it!!!!

Uh ohhhhhhh....


someone might be getting bit by the freak bug.......

[Blunder19]

I have a kruger that just has the yellow ink and then a layer of pink to create an orange background... you can tell its pink becuase the yellow sticks out on the left and the pink sticks out on the right where they were not alligned exactly.

so based on this card.. I would say Pink was a color used.

[bn2cardz]

On my "Sunburned" groom example you can see that there was some yellow mixed in with what seems to be two passes of pink (as better seen from the left side).

[jimonym]

Part of the reason the cards are so eye-appealing is that the artists were masters of teasing the appearance of many, many hues out of a relatively small number of base colors.

For Doc Crandall's portrait I see at least the following base colors, all working together to create a smooth skin tone with some sense of perspective and depth: buff, yellow, light brown, light blue, pink, red and dark brown (or black). The colors are virtually the same as shown in Chris's test strip.

[atx840]

There is a Buff color used, here is a proof I picked up from ALC circa 1909

[JohnP0621]

I have this Kleinow batting which has a grey color background
Instead of the normal light blue.

John P

[Captainhask]

I've got a Bell that is missing some color. There is actually another one on ebay right now with the same defect and same front back combo. Back is clean so I don't think it is an adheasive issue. It still has the red pass on his lips but is missing the skin tone.

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Bell missing color

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[KCRfan1]

Could over soaking be the cause of "missing" color?

The Dahlen card looks completely washed out to me.