T206- Rebel Oakes (Ofkes) Error

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Leon

T206s seems to have an inordinate amount of print flaws.

Probably the result of printing so many of them. When your print run is in the gazillions (that's just an estimate), you're bound to have various inking problems along the way.

[steve B]

I believe all of these caption errors are from the transfer used to lay out then stone not transferring completely.

They would be identifiable positions from the sheet, which is how I separate variations and errors. I prefer the term variety, as so far it indicates something that happened regularly because of the plate having a difference, but isn't major enough to be recognized as a variation. Errors to me are things that happened haphazardly.


They're interesting, and I might collect a few if I had the money. But 1000+ just seems unreasonable.

I'm also of the opinion that every position on the plate will be slightly different, and trying to collect them all would be mostly insane.

[ronniehatesjazz]

Very interesting. Thanks for the feedback fellas!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Probably the result of printing so many of them. When your print run is in the gazillions (that's just an estimate), you're bound to have various inking problems along the way.

I think gazillions is probably millions and that's a lot. There are print errors in most other sets they just aren't discussed as much.