extra red ink card

[thehoodedcoder]

i figured the same thing but didn't want to conclusively draw that conclusion yet.

its only a hundred bucks. i will deal with it when i get it and put it under the loupe.

kevin

[wolterse]

Hey guys, this is my card that sold last night. I picked it up a few weeks ago from a friend that received it as part of a massive consignment of t206s that were 'sealed' for 20+ years. I had a hobby friend with me as we went through the cards and found this one. Like many of you, I thought it was a felt tip pen that marked up the hat. Then I noticed that the same red ink is on the uniform and there is event blue ink on the uniform as well. The uniform marks don't look anything like felt tip pen. We came to the conclusion as a group that it was in fact a print error. That said, we didn't take it under magnification but I understand the ebay buyer will. If upon closer examination, it's identified as not a print error then I will 100% refund.

[iwantitiwinit]

Sounds fair to me.

[thehoodedcoder]

hi,

i am the buyer. its cool man. i believe you. i appreciate your honesty on it and i don't think you meant any harm by listing it as such if you honestly believe it is an print defect.

if it is a print defect i certianly want it. if its not then i don't. you can ship it to me and i will make my own decision...and hopefully its not cause it would be the perfect addition to my 'missing red ink' collection

kevin

[thehoodedcoder]

hi,

ok. so i just got the card. i will have to be honest here. i can't tell. its either a really good fake, i don't have enough experience in this or it is in fact the real deal.


as much as my mind tells me, that its probabaly not, my eyes are telling me that its the real deal.

there is ink spatter in the most minute places, above the eyebrows and in the shading that are not visible to the naked eye. it has all of the right textures.

im going to try and take a picture of this through the loupe, with my iphone later. i believe that it will work.

kevin

[Cardboard Junkie]

Interesting Kevin....Can't wait to see a detailed scan under the loupe. Do you have a black light? How does it look under that? Dave. ps maybe Ted Z will chime in.

[thehoodedcoder]

I don't have a blacklight unfortunately.

I must say I am honestly stumped. I have included a set of scans on my site. One is from my scannner. And i highlighted the interesting parts that i notice red ink on, that you really can't see with the naked eye....particularly the grass in the background.

the loupe pictures were much harder to take because of steadying the hand and the area i can realistically take a photo of
in focus.

while the hat looks colored in and fake when you look at it, the more up close you look the better it gets, its tough to tell in the middle of the hat because there are scratches on the surface of the card and they add to the shadow/textures in that area.

there are places where there is blue ink and red ink on the uniform that look really consistent with a shading pattern and the hat where the jig jags are have a very very fine spatter pattern that is consistent with how the ink would have been laid down.

Delehanty Red Hat

kevin