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Posted By: joe brennan

In the lot description that Zack posted above, the Mastro auctions states "What appears to be a light soiling on the obverse, upon very close examination, is actually an extremely light "shadow" of the image of another T206 card (this is not uncommon with T206s, and usually results from cards being put in stacks before an ink process has fully dried)". If this Wagner has a wet sheet transfer on the reverse, wouldn't this lend credence that the card is period 1909? I would tend to think that if it was reprinted in the 1950's, and assuming multiple sheets were printed, they certainly wouldn't have laid the sheets on top of each other and caused a wet sheet transfer - more care would have been taken as these cards were to fill holes in the sets. Furthermore, assuming a certain limited number of sheets were printed in the 1950's, have any other wet sheet transfers of these "reprints" surficed? Surely the Wagner would not have been the only card with a transfer.

He also says in the discription that it was offered in a pack of Piedmont, and a slight wavy cut.
We know that it was notoffered by pack and if that's a slight wavy cut the Pacific is a slightly wavy Ocean. You are going to believe an auction description that it's a wet transfer. Crap, it's dirt off the floor of the Bowman printing room. " Hey guys that one didn't come out too good, let's make another."

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