T206 Blue Old Mill

steve B · #1 10-11-2013, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Yes, but all 4 borders are wider on the OM. If it is authentic, doesn't that mean it was probably hand cut from a sheet? Otherwise, how does one explain the obviously oversize white borders?

Also, the borders are much whiter on the OM. Maybe something bleached the the card (intentionally or not) and it also turned the ink blue.

There's a lot of size differences with most old cards. So having wider borders isn't odd.

The lightness could be lightness or the scanner, no way to tell without having a couple cards in hand. The T206s I have aren't consistently white or off-white.

I suppose it could have been changed by some chemical. Most black inks of the era are carbon -Either carbon black or lampblack- in a hardener like shellac or linseed oil (yeah, plus a bunch of other stuff that the companies kept as trade secrets) Carbon pigments don't change color all that readily.

Steve B

steve B · #2 10-11-2013, 10:10 AM

Found this while looking for info about inks. From 1904, includes pretty much everything you never wanted to know about various inks and how they are/were made.

http://www.archive.org/stream/inksth...crich_djvu.txt

Not in the best format for reading, but interesting anyway.

Some of what I've found makes me wonder if some of the darker black OM backs are actually blue, which can be made nearly black. And one of the common dark blues can be lightened.

But the same argument that goes against the blue OM works there as well, if the ink of the darker ones is really a blue-black, we should see a lot more blue ones. Just as we should eventually find a few more blue ones if it's an actual error in the color used.

As a funny technical note, the computer monitor I have is a flat panel one. I nearly bought an OM on Ebay because it looked BLUE! Then I sat up to type and as the angle I viewed it at changed it got darker, until it was black. Now I make sure I'm viewing at a good angle when I'm looking at cards.......

Steve B

thehoodedcoder · #3 10-13-2013, 11:35 AM

hi,

who is the current owner of the card? does anyone know this?

kevin

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