Printing experts and oddity lovers check out this 1933 Goudey

[emmygirl]

I worked in the printing industry for 20+ years and I'm no genius on this matter but these irregularities are most certainly from using Make Ready Sheets to get the press ready for the next run. To " get-up to color, to get registration or to clean a problem" these sheets were always available to help the pressman to get going quickly without "Wasting lots of expensive paper. No doubt some of these sheets got sandwiched into the good sheets and out they went with the product. Same thing happens occasionally with the printing of paper money.

[nebboy]

Originally Posted by emmygirl

I worked in the printing industry for 20+ years and I'm no genius on this matter but these irregularities are most certainly from using Make Ready Sheets to get the press ready for the next run. To " get-up to color, to get registration or to clean a problem" these sheets were always available to help the pressman to get going quickly without "Wasting lots of expensive paper. No doubt some of these sheets got sandwiched into the good sheets and out they went with the product. Same thing happens occasionally with the printing of paper money.

+1

Waste sheet for sure - you can tell the they were dilling problem with light blue - the shadow folds on the shirt does not show proper detailing which is easy to see compared to a nice example.

My best guess is a smash blank so bad sheets were pulled and used as waste - - - 2nd guess is still to much water in cyan ink mix on a start up and used waste until they got up to color.