Of Blue OLD MILL T206's....and such

sb1 · #1 10-03-2012, 05:01 PM

What are you saying? The cards back print aligns, the cards are centered differently as are 19 zillion T206's, but overall the cards are roughly the same dimension. The Blue OM and the black are near perfect text alignment matches where the obvious reprint and real OM are very far off on back alignment.

Ted aligned the top frame line just as the second poster did with the Blue OM. There are obvious differences in layout on the known reprint versus the Blue OM, which happens to match both black OM's shown.

packs · #2 10-03-2012, 05:06 PM

How in your opinion have they been aligned? You can clearly see that the top borders of the Walsh and the real OM are NOT aligned. The real OM goes above Walsh's top border and stops short from its bottom border.

My point is that the text aligns only when you cheat and align them by sight. They DO NOT align when the cards are placed on an equal plane top to bottom. They have to be manipulated to line up correctly.

Again, at least from the photo posted.

Ted's point is that the Blue reprints are not perfect copies of the original cards. They are cropped and printed differently using the real text and design as a model, but not reproducing it correctly. The Blue Walsh seems to share this same characteristic as the reprints.

sb1 · #3 10-03-2012, 05:13 PM

the cards should align by the print, not the borders, all cards are misaligned to the left or right or top to bottom. Take 10 T206's and put the bottom edge on a straightline, probably none of the printed framelines will line up. Take the same group and align the top border with the straightline and ALL of the bottom framelines will be on the same plane.

packs · #4 10-03-2012, 05:31 PM

Sure. Those anomalies happen frequently but this one only happened once.

sb1 · #5 10-03-2012, 05:38 PM

I have no idea what you are saying. The Blue OM and the Black OM align, the reprint and Black OM do not.

packs · #6 10-03-2012, 06:02 PM

Your opinion is your opinion. I'm not telling you you're wrong. But in my opinion there are key differences in size of the printing. If you look closely at the word ASSORTMENT you will see that they don't align.

Plus, as Clayton said doesn't it bother you at all that this back is a known reprinted back in the same exact color as the reprints? How could it just be coincidence that there would be a blue Old MIll error that would just happen to be in the exact same color?

teetwoohsix · #7 10-03-2012, 06:11 PM

Aside from the backs lining up or not lining up, isn't the interesting point the fact that the back of TedZ's reprint blue OM looks identical to the back of the blue OM Walsh?

Sincerely, Clayton

bcornell · #8 10-03-2012, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by packs

Your opinion is your opinion. I'm not telling you you're wrong. But in my opinion there are key differences in size of the printing. If you look closely at the word ASSORTMENT you will see that they don't align.

You're not going to give up on this, apparently. I would have called the Walsh a fake in a heartbeat, but I saw it up close and it's not. Not altered, rebacked, reprinted, etc.