Opinions Please T206 Scrap or not??

[Exhibitman]

FWIW, having owned the Titus for some years I think it is an issued misprint/miscut card.

Also FWIW, I am more interested in issued error cards than in printers' scrap. I have both, of course, but I prefer the former. My preferences in order from most preferred to least:

--Ghosts

--Miscut Fronts

--Misprint Fronts

--Miscut Backs

--Wrong Fronts [flipped sheet in the press, aligned to the backs]

--Wrong Backs [flipped sheet in the press, aligned to the fronts]

--Misprint or Blank Backs


Don't get me wrong, scraps can be really interesting, but I like the idea of the mistake getting all the way into the package. I mean, did they not care? Were they lazy that day? Did the pressman have a bad night the previous evening?



Of course I do see the attraction of scraps

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Don't get me wrong, scraps can be really interesting, but I like the idea of the mistake getting all the way into the package. I mean, did they not care? Were they lazy that day? Did the pressman have a bad night the previous evening?

I remember getting these atrocities back in the '60s - as a kid, you weren't too happy about 1 of the 5 cards in the pack being miscut by 33% or the registration being off in a way that would draw $500-$1,000 on a T206 today.

Another question - on the T206s, if one card had the problem, then every card on the sheet had it. Meaning it was even weirder that the cards made it to a pack - they might miss it on one card, but an entire sheet?

Were the modern cards you posted at the bottom printed the same way, or was there a possibility of only a subset of the sheet ending up as these freaks?

[FrankWakefield]

I think we're all in general agreement. And as for the blank backed cards, I've seen only one, never owned one. From what I've seen and heard I'd think that the ones I've seen were not inserted into cigarette packages, they've all seemed hand cut. But one day, if I see a blank backed white border tobacco card with a factory cut, I would then think that that particular card was inserted into a cigarette package.

Steve, I'd think that Ewing card is scrap. In looking at it, I'd think that a sheet of cards was printed, and something somewhere was wrong with it... a corner torn or folded, ink spill, coffee spill, something. For whatever reason the sheet didn't go through the factory cutting. Into the trash the sheet goes, someone digs it out and takes it home, then some of it is cut into cards... While the Ewing part of that sheet might have been ok, I think there was a problem somewhere.

Actually, the misprints, out of register, and color missing cards help us have an insight into the printing process. I think they're all very collectable.