The Leaf cards are about as difficult as it gets as far as using them for examples goes.
The first thing to keep in mind is that the two shown are in some ways entirely different cards. There are differences in most of the colors, especially the yellow that were differences between press runs. And those differences were on the plates themselves. The 6 is the more common, and even with the black inked a bit better, it always looks washed out and reddish in the face area. Leaf generally had horrible registration, and I believe some of the reason for multiple press runs was an attempt to hide the poor registration.
The common numbers have 3-5 distinct press runs, maybe more.
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