T206 Blue Old Mill

[barrysloate]

Well if it's at SGC then it's starting to sound real. Amazing.

[judsonhamlin]

I will be skeptical until it gets a grade from SGC. Is it a Uzit blue or a Polar Bear blue?

[chris]

The card is not mine. It's polar bear blue. I'll post a pic soon.

[willworkforT206]

Assuming the card is legit, I'm not really suprised to hear that such a card exists. Since minor color variations exist with Old Mill SL and Lenox (Black/Brown) backs, I've always wondered why other backs don't exist in more than one color. Why aren't there green, red or brown Piedmonts for example...or maybe blue, green or black Sweet Caporals?

I suppose using green ink to print Piedmont or Sweet Caporal backs would be such a blatant disregard for quality control that ALC wouldn't do it, or maybe ATC wouldn't tolerate it. But maybe using brown ink instead of black to print a Lenox back for example was more acceptable or within a certain level of tolerance. Using blue ink instead of black to print an Old Mill back seems like it might be along the same lines. I presume it's more noticable though.

I guess the only thing that does suprise me is that something like this hasn't surfaced before now.

Steve

[willworkforT206]

Darn! I just checked all 36 of my T206s with Old Mill backs and not one of them is blue.

I wonder if any Cycle or Tolstoi backs were printed in blue that day.

Steve

[ullmandds]

i'm surprised such a card exists!!!!! after all of these years...noone's ever seen one? Faded Black ink? A scrap of some sort? Very odd?! I'm very intrigued by such a T206.

[Blunder19]

wheres the pic?

[CMIZ5290]

Very intriguing, in all my years collecting t206s, i have never heard of such a card.....

[npa589]

If everything ends up checking out, this discovery would cause insanity.

Would this reveal anything with regard to the printing process of the backs? Now, granted I don't know a whole lot about it - but the "plate" they used, perhaps they wet the wrong side with the blue layer of ink, and then printed that particular Old mill card with the blue ink???


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