T206 Stovall and Turner: Charcoal Gray v. Brown Shirt

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by sreader3

T206 color variations seems to be a hot board topic at the moment.

Here is my contribution.

Two Cleveland Naps 150/350 subjects, Stovall (Portrait) and Turner, are available with either a charcoal gray shirt or a brown shirt. The brown shirt version is, I believe, the result of the blue ink pass having not been added on top of the brown ink layer to create the charcoal gray appearance. The difference in shirt color can be fairly subtle--but there is a difference.

That reduces the ranks of the “brown shirted” Stovalls and Turners to a small but substantial minority of Piedmont and Sweet Cap 350 copies, plus ALL Sovereign 350 copies. (I cannot speak definitively yet to EPDG or Old Mill).

If we assume that the ALC just “ran out” of blue ink near the end of the 150/350 print run, the distribution of Stovalls and Turners with brown shirts would be consistent with Sovereign 350 being printed last, overlapping with tail-end production of Piedmont 350 and Sweet Cap 350.

Scot

My four T206's of these guys are all “gray shirted”. I've looked for the "brown shirted" versions, but have not yet seen any.

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Scot, for whatever this is worth, American Litho printed their 1st series (155 subjects) with light (or pale) BLUE ink. There is one exception to this pattern.....
Waddell (portrait) which is printed with a deep BLUE ink.

The 350 series and the 460 series subjects were printed with either a deep BLUE or pale BLUE ink. I am not sure what this tells us (or how it factors into your
premise); however, I find this difference in how ALC applied BLUE ink in the various series quite interesting.



TED Z