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Dave HornishI have been thinking about this for a while now. It has been established (I think) that the caption at the bottom of the card was believed to have bee applied with the brown color pass. I have seen prior posts indicating some partial remnants on the Doyle NY Nat'l caption may have resulted from a printman wiping the plate and leaving a serif or period or something. Is it possible though the captions were added as separately typeset characters and not as part of the overall card design or brown printing pass.?
Plenty of sister sets to T206 use different fonts and colors for the captions whole using the same picture as T206, so to me this makes some sense. A T213 Coupon of a Cobb pose looks like a T206 except for the font and caption color. So I guess the question is could the caption be changed while leaving the card image itself unchanged? It certainly seems the answer is yes since a common group of plates of the images was used to make many different sets.