Was This T-206 Ghost Print Ever Identified?

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It's not a different version of the Bescher portrait. It is Bescher's face, only in red ink. If the printer was using red where the black/grey was supposed to be, you would not see the portions of the face/head that are supposed to be in red (thus, the red hat lines and collar lines do not appear, and the light grey shadowing detail on his face has that odd red rouge look).

The red team name was probably added afterwards (taken from Egan). This is printer's scrap. Someone was testing the process.

If it is a different image of Bescher, then only the lettering style in the team name is different from the final Bescher T206 portrait. Again, that would not be unusual -- the team lettering in many T206 images (and in just about all the Cincinnati images) appears to have been altered in the final printed version.