Another Nice PSA Graded Card - T207 Lewis

[Popcorn]

Originally Posted by sb1

There were two Lewis cards on the sheet, one with emblem, one without.

Yes, the one “with” was cut in half unfortunately.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Popcorn

Yes, the one “with” was cut in half unfortunately.

With all of the pieces of the puzzle, and very little motive from the seller, I am thinking PSA got this one right.
A question though, does anyone have another T207 with print that looks like that? They should be out there somewhere, no?

[sb1]

Here are a few Lewis no emblems(actually a large percentage of the ones known). All are less sharp than the emblem counterpart.

[sb1]

I believe the one from the find has lost most or all of it's glossy coating, probably from decades of storage in a humid or damp environment and may have other environmental damage as well, fly specking, etc.

[Luke]

The font on the name sure is weird, but the back looks perfectly normal. For there to be funny business going on, it would have to be a reback using an already expensive card, then the doctor would have to risk sticking it to a sheet and risk soaking it. Very unlikely imo.

Also, cool to see the full sheet of cards. I own 9 of these and didn't know they all came from the same place.

[steve B]

I'm trying to think of how that would happen.

The closest I can get is maybe overinking along with too much water on the plate.

There's a similar common problem on an engraved stamp, but it was because of a change in both the pigment and the type of press all at once, and was from almost 40 years earlier. By the time T207s were a thing it had totally been sorted out and as far as I know wasn't ever a problem on lithographed items.

The idea that the glosscoat has been affected a lot might work too. If the gloss was printed on top of a still damp (ish) black, they might have combined and drifted as the gloss was affected, or the black slightly migrated into the gloss.

Overall a very strange outlier.

[frohme]

Curious if any of the recent winners of the raw cards would post their perceptions of the card(s) when they get them in hand. I got Gregg (two right, one down from the Lewis being discussed) and am curious to know what others think about their card.

Thanks
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Mike.