CHIEF BENDER Ghost OverPrint Error?? STOPPED

[V117collector]

So whos the lucky guy? I'm sure someone knows

Congrats to the new owner, very nice!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190318652899

[FrankWakefield]

That looks to me that it is as much or more likely to be where the two cards ended up front to front then got wet with water, alcohol, kerosene, or something else. Seems to me that it would be unlikely that sheets would line up like that if stacked front to front, so it seems something that would have been likely to have happened after the cards were cut. I'm not convinced that is a printing error at all...

[Leon]

To me it looked more like a wet sheet transfer.....That seller is normally pretty good and I am surprised he stopped the auction.

[FrankWakefield]

Odds are that two sheets, one newly printed, placed face to face, seem unlikely to line up like that so well. Those frames line up quite well.

What seems more likely is two separate cards, face to face, would be quite likely to line up that well. Seems to me 'we' jump the gun and want any ink abnormality to be something that happened during the printing process. A hundred years ago there were craftsmen that could print quite well, in some ways much better than what's done today. Still, it may be such as you say...

[danmckee]

I am with Leon, I am shocked that seller wpuld shut down and sell offline. Did the Levy's get it maybe? They love these printing freaks.

[tedzan]

I agree with FRANK W......

In the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, Lithographic printing was at its best. Front-to-front
wet sheet transfer just did not occur. The lithographers were true craftsman, they took the completed
sheets off the press and stacked them all facing up.

This error is the result of a some recent....whatever.


T-Rex TED

[Leon]

Those lithographers were true craftsmen, no doubt, but no doubt too they had print errors, scraps and freaks, no?

[barrysloate]

Leon- I don't consider your card an error, unless the printer dropped some acid before he came to work. That is printer's scrap, albeit a very significant example of it.

[Leon]

and this one?