That is a cool printing stone.
Here is an early hockey trade card (below), circa 1880s... H820 in the ACC.....
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Originally Posted by samosa4u
This is the one area in vintage card collecting that most people don't understand, and yet, it's so important. If you're gonna' spend shit-loads of money on vintage cards, then at least have an idea as to how they were made, right ??
Now, the first-ever hockey cards to be released in Canada were the C56's. These were made using stone lithography, which is a very complicated time-consuming process. One of the printing stones that was used in making these cards was recently discovered:
Because these C56 cards were released around the same time as the T206's, I always assumed that both sets were made the same way. |