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Originally Posted by drc
To be serious, the cross marks occasionally appear on regular T206s so they don't prove anything. They aren't common, but aren't incredibly rare either. The crosses on proofs are handwritten.
I'm not the board T206 expert, so someone else may have a different take.
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I think....and I say this hesitatingly because you guys have figured out lots of stuff in the last 6 years that I didn't know then...that what we 'used' to believe was that the printer marks were darker on the earlier sheets, then practically (if not) gone altogether by the last ones. I am fairly certain that they were not hand-drawn on the proofs, as I owned proofs and they were not hand-drawn (mine were hand-cut, blank-backed).
Maybe they existed in hand-drawn and non-hand-drawn versions? (the hand-drawn ones coming first?). Someone must have some scans to post.
But I agree that they aren't at all rare - still, I save them when hand-cut, brightly inked, and the marks show, even if all these qualities are marginal (as in this one).