What do you make of this T206 Wiltse Portrait - No Cap?

[steve B]

Yeah, a lot missing. No pink, no gray, and a something going on with the light blue.

There isn't a difference in the shoulder and cheek. The dot patern is identical for both. The areas look different because the blue is printed a bit high and a little left. Without the gray to darken the shoulder it appears bigger.


What's also interesting is that under the N on the uniforn the light one has a couple dots that have blended together and the other does not have that. It also doesn't have the 2 five dot sections lower right. But it does have the two blue dots on the uniform in exactly the same places. Probably not errant drops of ink but actually on the plate. There are a few other dots that are consistent between the two of them as well.

With enough detailed scans it might be possible to nail down the makeup of the sheets by figuring out how many diferent versions there are. Complicated of course by the probability of multiple plates.

Steve B