Just curious about the T206 Lumley background...

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Posted By: Deb Johnson

I have searched past threads and can't find a reference to the diagonal lines that make up the background of the T206 Lumley. I was looking at a stain under magnification and noticed that parallel lines are used instead of the splotchy or solid blues on other cards. You might have to have a poorly registered card like this one to see them with the naked eye, or have better, younger, naked eyes than mine. I've checked my other cards, and can't find any that use this effect. I have two P150's like this so think it was planned, not a printer's error, and the result is fine, so why didn't they use the line idea on other cards, or did they? I found an old post of Ted Z's that refers to the fact that blue or cyan would have been the last of four ink passes in the lithographic process, and I think I see pale yellow underneath the lines, so were the print artists just experimenting for a different hue of blue/green? Any thoughts? Anybody know of another card that uses lines like these?
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Just curious,
Deb J ('hardly ever' poster)