T205 Freaks

[Brian Weisner]

Be well Brian

[z28jd]

This is my only t205 "freak" but while looking for it, it gave my an idea for a T207 thread

I paid all of $6 for this card

[Mrc32]

And

Great cards Ted Z. Hope you are doing well my friend.

Brian W I think we need to chat about some of those cards. Any chance in you parting with them?

[Brian Weisner]

Here are a few more...

Huggins/Wheat




Mattern/Smith





Be well Brian

[bn2cardz]

I picked up these two cards in recent weeks.

this was already shown earlier in the thread:

...and this one:


The Flynn didn't seem like a printing incident because it seemed to flow with the wrinkles/creases and you can see it in some of the loss of the gold. Then I received the Beck and saw that it, too, showed pink in the gold loss also. If these aren't printing freaks they look like they could have happened at the same time. The Beck convinces me more that the Flynn may also be one.

So what happened did some magenta spill onto the press?

[Jaybird]

I agree that these look stained well after printing. The fact that the pink is visible where the gold has worn off on the edges and is a deeper color in the creases is a major clue.

Somebody spilled something on them after they were well-loved.

[bn2cardz]

That was my opinion too Jay. Then I got confused because it looked like the magenta seemed to be under parts of some printing and the straight lines of some of the edges.

The crease on they Flynn is the biggest indicator that it was done afterwards, but then I thought maybe it looks darker because the under media got so soaked, and now that the under coating is showing it looks darker there.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I picked up these two cards in recent weeks.

this was already shown earlier in the thread:

...and this one:


The Flynn didn't seem like a printing incident because it seemed to flow with the wrinkles/creases and you can see it in some of the loss of the gold. Then I received the Beck and saw that it, too, showed pink in the gold loss also. If these aren't printing freaks they look like they could have happened at the same time. The Beck convinces me more that the Flynn may also be one.

So what happened did some magenta spill onto the press?

Originally Posted by Jaybird

I agree that these look stained well after printing. The fact that the pink is visible where the gold has worn off on the edges and is a deeper color in the creases is a major clue.

Somebody spilled something on them after they were well-loved.

I had conceded that this was a stain after the fact, UNTIL I was looking at the scans again today.

I noticed that the Darker Yellow seems to avoid the pink. The pink over flow is very dark on the surrounding spots but not on where the yellow was laid down. I am now starting to think the reason it shows on the crease so much is because the white paper is showing through that was soaked heavily by the pink somewhere during the printing process (maybe a spill) then when the rest of the plates printed their respective colors it pushed the ink out of the way and printed on top of it this would also explain how it halos the head so well, but crackles on the face area.