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.
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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