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Posted 08/29/2019   05:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Gallejois to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
What could cause the image to smear in the upper left?

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Posted 08/29/2019   11:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Redsfan11 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bleach?
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Posted 08/29/2019   11:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like it was just over-inked. That's common enough.
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Posted 08/29/2019   11:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bud to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Over-inked would be my guess. I have a couple of later-issue Washington-Franklins with this problem. Looks pretty much identical to this much earlier issue.
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Posted 08/29/2019   1:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gettinold to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting how it is smeared into the upper margin. Possible stamp was handled while the ink was still wet?
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Posted 08/29/2019   4:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Gallejois to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's what I was thinking. Perhaps this was in a corner or end position and someone picked up the sheet while it was still wet. Since this was probably (in a manner of speaking) how it came off the press, would this be an error?
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Posted 08/29/2019   5:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add redwoodrandy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not an error. That leaves freak or oddity. EFO classification.
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Posted 08/30/2019   4:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jkelley01938 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My guess is that we will never know for sure.

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