CHIEF BENDER Ghost OverPrint Error?? STOPPED

[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?

[barrysloate]

That's an error. When the back of the sheet was printed it was misaligned. That guy wasn't on acid...just too much coffee.

[tbob]

Just curious, did the bidders know the auction was about to be closed down and given a chance to make a higher "bid" or was it just a bolt from the blue auction ending? Anyone here bidding on it know?

[tedzan]

Thanks for showing your Mullaney....as I knew you would. However, it is not a "Front-on-Front" example.

The 6-color inking on the fronts took time for the ink to dry. Whereas, the backs were pre-printed.

TED Z

[fkw]

My Guess...

The card looks to have been (in an album or storage box?) then got wet with something and the card facing it was upside down transferred ink to the other card opposite it.

This is no way a print scrap or print defect IMO since the image of Bender is reversed. The only way it was done at the printers is as a wet ink transfer.

The Q is how/when did the ink transfer from the other card/sheet? At the printer or many years later in a collection that got wet?

[rdixon1208]

Would you guys that have more experience please tell me what you think happened to the back of this card. Is it possible for the ink to bleed through or do you think that two cards were stacked and the ink transfered?

[tbob]

Robert, I think that was a wet ink transfer when two sheets are placed together. This does happen. The Bender front appearing upside down on the front of the Lake is bizarre.