T206 Tris Speaker "Missing Red Ink"

[Ronnie73]

Originally Posted by steve B

There are two of these on ebay right now, which gives a good opportunity to have a fairly close look.

Both have the bright red on the hat, but not on the uniform. I've seen a few of these and they're usually like that.
And there isn't an indication on any others that there is pink under the red on the uniform. But it is under the red on the hat.
That's a bit unususal, as there's usually pink under the bright red.

What I think it might be, and I'd have to see a bunch more Speakers to be sure, is that at one point they ran the pink as bright red and bright red as pink.
So not a missing color, but a switched color.

Now the "proof" would be a group of maybe 10-12 cards with a similar thing going on. But it could be a lot more subtle.

Steve B

I never really thought about a possible ink color swap. I guess the next step would be to search other cards from the same print group/sheet to see if a pattern exists.