Odd Rhoades T206

[steve B]

So much wtf going on with both of those.

I had a couple probable explanations for the Rhodes, but also found reasons to reject those ideas.

I'm uncertain about there being a gloss layer, but Pat knows his stuff so I'll just go with that. Sort of.

Assuming it's a "normal" T206, its on coated stock which will absorb inks over time and still be glossy. Inks, especially more fluid ones tend to puddle on those and say wet longer than usual.
My first instinct is that someone outlined it with a felt pen.
BUT....
The ink in certain spots doesn't look like felt pen or faded old felt pen. There should be uneven puddling on coated stock, and it's not there.
AND
The card obviously can't transfer to itself. And the chances of someone being able to exactly duplicate what they did on one card on another is small, especilally given how sloppy it is.

Water shouldn't cause a transfer.
Other chemicals should affect more than just one color, and even if it did a transfer should be much neater than what's there.

Inks generally don't bleed through coated stock. If it's not coated, maybe? But that's some pretty thick stuff to bleed through and what can get through that much is usually too thin to do it cleanly.

If there is a gloss layer and it's under it, that pretty much precludes anything post-factory.


It looks gray? Maybe a bit reddish along with it?

If it's multiple colors that also goes against it being post factory unless it's an ink that had both black and a bit of red to make a particular shade of gray. Which would be strange. It could also just be the way my monitor shows the color.

I'm also hard pressed to think of it as factory. The printing was imperfect, but the sloppiness of the border seems just too far different from what ALC did.

The only thing I can think of would be a real long shot.
If the gray plate was worn, and just had to be "fixed" immediately for some reason it is possible to draw in something you want printed with what's essentially a crayon. But it won't last long. But I'm not seeing a reason for them to draw in a detail that wasn't there before, like a band of gray around the border. And do that sloppily, when they got other details like the C on the hat done very well.


None of it makes any sense.