T206 Overprint Question

[Prof]

Bumping this thread.

I recently found one of these overprint T206s where the red bar missed about half of the factory 30 stamp.

It's a raw card, probably would grade 1 or 1.5, non-HOF player.

Earlier in the thread, someone said 100-225, but that was six years ago.

I was curious, does anyone have an idea for a going rate for something like this?

[RCFire82]

Paid $75 for this one a couple months ago on Ebay...

[RCFire82]

Also have this one with the shifted overprint. But it cost a little bit more...

[53toppscollector]

Just wanted to add in my love and appreciation for the 649 OP and the 42 OP, and I am attempting to put together both subsets. I also really like that the bar is a solid dark red on the 649, and is a more ornate, lighter red on the 42 OP. They look great in the binder.

[Pat R]

Here are a few 649's that I have, a couple of them I did pay a premium for.

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and a pair of 42's the Leach overprint missed by so much that it has the 42 from the card above it on the top.

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[Brent G.]

Please forgive my ignorance, but can someone please explain what an overprint is and why they occurred? And, is this one?

[GeoPoto]

For whatever reason, the cards had to identify the factory at which the cigarettes they accompanied were manufactured. So, when they wanted to use pre-printed cards with the "wrong" factory number on them, they would "overprint" the pre-printed number and add the correct one. Probably because they made a late-breaking decision to produce cigarettes at a factory that had not been expected to do so when the cards were printed.