T206 production/printing questions/comments

[steve B]

Originally Posted by caramelcard

Ted,

That card actually makes no sense to me at all and there's about two
of them in the world so it doesn't really prove much. In fact, there's no reason why they would restrike that back.

Also, that doesn't look to me like the same thickness in font and the same color as the SC backs.

What is your opinion on why they were overstriking the cards?

Were they printing them and then deciding very quickly that they need to go to another factory and then overstriking them?

Rob

It makes as much sense as any other printers scrap.

They use sheets to setup the press.
Sometimes they use new sheets.
Sometimes they use sheets with defects.

So a sheet used to setup the 649 OP was used to also setup and test brown OM.

Pretty simple.

The 649 overprints and the 42 overprints are for different reasons.

The F42s are as Ted says probably due to changing the site of production, consolidating it from factories 25 and 30 to factory 42. Preparation for the breakup of the trust seems a likely reason.

F649 ---I think was probably either a decision to produce some SC in that factory maybe because of a problem in another plant or to catch up to an increase in demand. 649 was probably less busy than the other plants.

My alternate theory is that SC production has something to do with Plank. The existing packing logs show a specific notation "for other than philadelphia area" which at the least indicates regional distribution.

As a temporary thing they wouldn't have had cards made with 649 backs for a brand that 649 usually didn't produce. The simplest thing is to have ones made for a different factory overprinted.


Steve B