Brown Lenox ???

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by Leon

BTW, I have seen some brown old mills that I felt were really brown, these just aren't some of them.....again, I am sure they are brown, I just can't tell.

Leon you own a brown Old Mill, your Mullaney multi brand back. Use that one for comparison. FWIW I believe the card in the listing is a brown Lenox. With that said I would still get a guarantee from the seller.

[Leon]

Tim- Good point on the brown Old Mill. I keep forgetting it's on the back of the ghost overprint card.

Jim- that bottom right one is what I have remembered seeing. Now that is brown. I guess the Lenox don't come like that....

[M's_Fan]

If I can't even really tell if its black or brown, and in fact the grading companies often can't tell either, it tells me that this isn't really a variation of any significance in the T206 set, if its a variation at all...

Ink and paper age and fade in many different ways over a hundred years, and this whole "brown ink" is just much ado about nothing in my opinion, but that's must my two cents, more power to you if this kind of thing gets you salivating...

[T206.org]

I didn't feel like the one on eBay was brown until I did this comparison - now I think it's the brownest one I've ever seen (but still not very brown, in my eyes, when compared to the other browns, like Old Mill).

The "color corrected" simply means being run through the Photoshop Auto-Tone, Auto-Contrast, and Auto-Color passes.

[Blunder19]

the pic is not working for me.. can you correct it so I can see the pic?

[Anthony S.]

It's a Taupe Lenox.

[E93]

Here is my example in the same scan as a black example.
JimB