Poll: What is your opinion on the value of T206 WST (Wet Sheet Transfers)?

[Ronnie73]

Originally Posted by atx840

Neat Steve.

A while ago I took a high res scan for board member, it does appear to be under the Piedmont ad and "printed" more so then a transfer from another sheet.

Thats a nice clear scan. Seeing that tells me the fronts are printed first and the backs last. Thats an impression cylinder transfer and not a wet sheet transfer. The only thing I have not been able to understand yet is why it's always the same color pass that shows up. Maybe the guy that printed that color didn't pay much attention to his printing press or maybe only a couple sheets got past inspection and all others were caught and destroyed. Has anyone seen any odd T206's with front colors on the backs? I think the next step would be to make a list of all impression sheet transfers with their backs also listed. Most likely many are from the same sheet. I know theres blank backs and Piedmont 350 backs. Are there any others? Doing this could help us learn what cards are on the same sheets and when adding the findings of this to other research, we may be one step closer to learning a sheet layout. One thing I should mention, during the printing, if a full sheet was not fed, then the next full sheet would have the transfer. If a sheet fed late into the press, then the next sheet would only have the transfer on the top section of the sheet. Most likely the sheet that fed late would have been pulled and destroyed but the next one printed with the half transfer would of slipped by. One last thing that I question is why on many impression cylinder transfers do the names, border, and part of the design transfer but on others, its just the design that transfers. Are they actually two different color passes? Maybe its a Brown and/or Black color pass. This would also have to be documented if a list was put together. Maybe someone needs to start a new thread and quote my thoughts and questions. I would love to do it but i'm busy with the T205 website and regular life stuff.

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by Ronnie73

The only thing I have not been able to understand yet is why it's always the same color pass that shows up.

Ron - The impression cylinder transfer of Chance above is the black color pass which includes the outside border. The one's I posted in the other thread are the brown color pass and include the team captions. So that's at least two different colors for the fronts and Sean's Sovereign Tinker is a good example of an impression cylinder transfer of a back. Maybe some others will surface.

[Ronnie73]

Originally Posted by Abravefan11

Ron - The impression cylinder transfer of Chance above is the black color pass which includes the outside border. The one's I posted in the other thread are the brown color pass and include the team captions. So that's at least two different colors for the fronts and Sean's Sovereign Tinker is a good example of an impression cylinder transfer of a back. Maybe some others will surface.

Thanks Tim, Thats what I figured. I thought I remember seeing one with the border and the player name but then that would be a brown and black transfer error and the chances of that happening to the same sheet with a misfeed in front of it would be like finding a Honus Wagner with a Drum back. I checked my downloaded scans folder and it was actually a couple of T212 Obaks that had the border, player name, team, and player that I remember seeing.

[tiger8mush]

didn't fellow board member Kevin Saucier do some experimentations with this stuff? I haven't seen him post much lately, so I'm not sure if he's still around or if I've just missed his posts. I remember him being very knowledgeable in the land of alterations and always seemed happy to help other members detect that sort of thing.