Another t206 question

[mrvster]

btw.....beautiful willetts! as you of all collectors know, one of the "tufer" 42's combos....

and not to confuse the issue....a BEAUTIFUL dark back...

did we ever finish the dark vs. light or "baby blue" 42 color distribution??? craig??? me and you we working on this at one point I think??

[White Borders]

Originally Posted by mrvster

btw.....beautiful willetts! as you of all collectors know, one of the "tufer" 42's combos....

and not to confuse the issue....a BEAUTIFUL dark back...

did we ever finish the dark vs. light or "baby blue" 42 color distribution??? craig??? me and you we working on this at one point I think??

Thanks Johnny .. wish i knew as much about P42's as you know about scrap! I vaguely remember the dark vs baby blue P42 survey, but I think I got busy with other things and didn't follow it too closely. Don't forget Scot Reader when it comes to knowledge of T206 .. His "Inside T206" is what drew me to the set.

[mrvster]

thanks my friend! don't be so modest ....... you are one of the most knowledgeable t206 collector/researchers we have! THANK GOD you are back to posting.....your posts were missed very much by me and everyone else.....
scot is an animal when it comes to T206....another mentor of mine

my research indicated about a 50/50 split in the "light" vs" "dark" or , as I call them, piedy 42 baby blue and piedmont "blue" or the darker blue ones .....at first, when I collected them, I thought they were exlusively printed in the "baby" blue and that how I would spot them "in the wild" at first glance on ebay.....then after a while, I noticed the "dark" blue ones.....I thought they were "rarer" than the baby blues.....after many years of collecting, I noticed it was almost split 50/50 in the distribution of light vs. dark....other collectors also contributed....was pretty neat to "discover" the differentiation....

subjects, I noticed, where printed mostly in both......no "exclusive" players attached to either a dark or light blue piedy 42




are you going to the national?? would love to meet up with you....i'll be brining the "circus"....I want you to see so bad! please email me when you get a chance.....id love to chat........very excited to have you back posting....

[tedzan]

Craig and Johnny

Both the backs of the UZIT and the PIEDMONT 42 cards have varying intensities of blue ink. American Litho. (ALC) printed these 2 backs concurrently
at the tail end of the T206 press runs (circa Feb-Mar 1911). At the same time ALC was starting up their Gold-bordered sports & non-sports cards. There-
fore, it's possible that the printers just did a sloppy job in the application of blue ink on the final run of these T206's.


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TED Z
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