Good afternoon everyone!
calling on Erick S., Pat R., and Chris B , Ted and some of the others.....
lets see some other images and examples of these multi struck Tolstoi backs and multi strike Ad / Player T206 with Magenta images from the T 68 little Bengal Cigars men/heroes of history!
As most know on this board know, I love T-206 and the T-206 rarities/variations associated with them (especially freaky-deaky printer's scraps)....I have been collecting / trading them for over 25 plus years now.....
my ultimate goal is to obtain a T-206 Wagner one day, it has been a lifelong pursuit since I was 9 or so......40 years later, still chasing one! hoping to find one buried at a garage sale
...most of the board members here always hear me mention this, yes, I am a little obsessed
....but, until I complete my life goal of obtaining a Wagner, these rarities help fuel the T-206 fire in me
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let's give a little back story on these particular scraps and why I am so interested with the correlation:
anyway, for all those years, I was fixated on a double stamped Tolstoi Ad back scrap I had seen ( T 206 Russ Ford), with a magenta image of something on the back printed upside down very lightly.....I always wondered, what is printed on the back??? this is a cool printers scrap!.....double printed Tolstoi back Ad, and a light magenta ink of something I couldn't discern??! ! wow- freaky deaky
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to some collectors, it looked like trash, but to me, it was a treasure!
I'm not sure who owned this particular Russ Ford, but I wasn't able to purchase it ( I believe he is a board member here named Craig?)
also, I had seen an image of about 12(Gandil, Tannehill, Duffy, Devore, Wheat, that super print group ) or so multi ad struck printers scraps that had player images and multiple ads printed on the back... I think it was an auction over 20 years ago.....I wish I won that lot! I will look for the scan/picture, I have it somewhere......
about 15 years ago, I bid on one of the multi-strike back/players cards on Ebay( there was 5 listed at one time, they sold for around $500.00 at the time).....I missed them all and was out bid!!
.......needless to say, I was dissapointed....
for many years, I was chasing either one of the multi struck T206 Ad backs(either the multi ad examples or a double struck Tolstoi with magenta image example)......
I was lucky enough to trade for a multi-player / multi ad Chick Gandil from fellow board member Mike S.(thanks again Mike
) a few years ago.....an AWESOME card.....Erick S (T 206 Hound), digitally dissected the card and identified a Magenta image of a subject from the T-68 (Hernando Cortes) non sport trading card series printed in magenta on the back!
T-68 Heroes of History / Men of history
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/T68/go.html
http://scottsdalecards.com/1911-t68-...al-set-98-100/
these cards were printed con currently with t 206 years at the AL from ATC in New York.....1909-1911 so it seems.....The printer must have set the presses up with either the little Bengals or the206's....and when switching from one issue to the next, used these "super print" subjects sheets or strips ,in a way, set up the print run for either issue
We started a thread here on net 54 and dissected the image on the thread.....was very exciting for me.....Thanks Erick S.! I was looking for the thread before I started this one, but I couldn't find it.......I 'm sure Erick, Chris B, or Pat R will find it and post it here soon..
fast forward- this year,(2020) I obtained another example of a Russ Ford (similar to the Russ Ford I saw years ago), except on this one, the magenta image on the back was different, yet the double stamping of the Tolstoi back was exactly the same!!....
next....I received the ultimate
.... a multi player / multi stike player T 206
with another Magenta image of a T 68 men of history subject! PHEW!
I now own 2 of the multi struck tolstois ( Gandil and Ford) and 1 of the multi player / ad struck ( Tannehill) all with magenta images of T-68 Men/Hereos of history subjects on the back!Adam you sleuth!
I own these:
1) Ford with magenta General Custard T 68 image
2) Gandil with magenta Hernando Cortes T 68 image
3) Tannehill with Magenta - Pat R please reveal!!
image decipher mine and post yours!
the correlation is AWESOME!
looks like these grouped subjects(Devore, Crandal, Wheat, Gandil, Ford, Devore. etc.) were either on a separate sheet or some type of test sheets/ scrap sheets used to set up print runs at American Litho!????
ok graphic sleuths.....lets see some work!
Ted
Pat R ! thanks for rekindling the flame for me with these
....Erick S, Chris, let's go
lets see some magic.....