Ghost or Scribble?

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Posted By: Nickinvegas

Hello,
I picked this up at a mall show a few weeks ago. My wife says the card has modern scrible on it, I say it is some sort of factory ghost with period writing on the side. Which is it?

Nick

I croped the photo to only show the area of interest.

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Posted By: spaceops03

Don't know but it looks like a soldier (?) carrying a flag to me.

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Posted By: petecld

It does look like a soldier carrying a flag. Looks like a stamp though, not printing. The writing is probably period but nothing a printer would include. Call it "period era " scribble.

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Posted By: Rob

Check out this one.Rob

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Posted By: runscott

nice clean image, not fuzzy like a lot of the wet sheet cards.

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Posted By: Rob

Thanks Scott, you don't see many like this out there. Rob 

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Posted By: Dave

It looks to me that the ink used for the numbers is the same as that for the soldier. Hard to tell, though. If so, it would be a drawing rather than ghost.

I love the Becker ghost. Perfect clarity and centering. My guess is that the black layer of one sheet was still wet when a new sheet was stacked on it. Just lucky to get it this perfect.

Here's where it came from:

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Posted By: runscott

My interest in printer scrap cards is also based on the fact that they can tell us so much about how these cards were produced.

For instance, the Becker card would lead me to believe that the black was printed after the colors, since black was wet and colors were dry. On the other hand, the "brown/yellow" cards that were missing colors, HAD the black. What does it mean?

I would be interested to hear theories from people who know more about lithography printing.

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Posted By: Cycleback

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Posted By: runscott

David, this is impressive. Where before we would have seen 3-4 posts, instead we get a single blank post with several "evidences" of editing.

You better read this message quickly - I'm logged in and ready to edit it down to nothing!

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Posted By: Cycleback

that the rule of thumb for color printing is that you print the lightest ink first and the darkest inks last.

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

There's nothing sadder than seeing David trample on his own 1st amendment rights. This can only lead to more ellipses...

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Posted By: Robert {Bigb13}

Hey Dave the Beals Becker is my card.Rob

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Posted By: BcD

Is George Bush proving he was in the Alabama Armed Guard!

( Hey T-Bob, I wrote that just for you! )