T206 Oakes "White Team Letters"

[sreader3]

Hi All,

I am gauging interest in the below depicted T206 Oakes “White Team Letters” card. This particular card has never been offered to the hobby advertised as such. The white team letters are a byproduct of the red ink layer having been completely missed.

The card is what I would call a “freak cubed.” First, instead of the bold red “CINCINNATI” that we all are accustomed to seeing on Oakes’ jersey, this card has SNOWY WHITE team letters. There is no residual pink tint that is sometimes seen on missing red ink specimens. Second, this card has a near mint appearance (having been downgraded to PSA 4 due to back staining) which distinguishes it from the typically lower grade missing red ink examples that appear at auction every once in a while. Third, Oakes is a T206 subject that hardly ever seen missing red ink.

I have juxtaposed the “White Team Letters” Oakes with the common “Red Team Letters” Oakes for comparison.

Feel free to PM any serious offers.

Thanks.

Scot

[Jantz]

Nice card Scot!


Jantz

[freakhappy]

Wow! I double that jantz...that's a real beauty! Sharp corners to boot!

Good luck on the sale!

[obcmac]

I was one of the underbidders on that one. I would have went higher...but I didn't like the staining on the back...as some solvents/adhesives make colors disappear. I thought it looked pretty neat though...congrats.

Mac

[sreader3]

Jantz, Mike--Thanks for the comments.

Mac--If you are somehow suggesting that solvents are responsible for the missing red ink on this card you are wrong. The back staining appears to be nothing more than the result of the card having been mounted and carefully removed from an album at some point, which also explains why the corners are so nice.

(edited to say: Mac--Let me revise and extend my remarks and say that I am merely skeptical of your take on this card. I am not a PhD chemist. If a known adhesive applied to the back of a card can through chemical reaction remove all of the red ink from the front of the card without otherwise disturbing the front of the card in any way, shape or form then perhaps that is what happened here. But if that is the case I wonder why we haven't seen T206 doctors churning out missing red ink cards by the dozens.)

[Runscott]

You could fix that so easily with some red water color. Wonder if anyone every touched up T206's that way?