Interesting Printing Variety Of Scott 499

Not sure what happened here if excess ink or recut plate. look at the lock of hair by the ear and the button lines. I added another common scott 499 to the right for comparison. In the button it looks like there are rounds in it? or extra lines that aren't straight.

The other day I was just flyspecking with high magnifier a bunch of used 2c stamps of another series (with emphasis on "used"). It was interesting to see many stamps with pushed-around (e.g., "scraped") specks of raised inking, result of handling (in mails, since in mails, etc.).
Your example seems similar, esp. the Ribbons areas which was not mentioned (how would one 'count' the lines in those ribbons if needing to tell type I from type II or IIa or III etc.?) Sometimes used stamps just cannot be used as definite examples of certain production varieties, when one needs ALL the raised ink undisturbed as per mint examples.

There were 58 different plates used to print 499. Billions were issued. Clearly more than one transfer roll would have been used, and plates wear down, so very minor differences are going to show up.

I collect W/Fs and this is the first one in 30 years I have seen like this. Nothing special just different! Looks like the bottom engraving line at tip of hair lock is exaggerated. and missing ink below that line so the hair lock looks bigger and tip of hair lock is slightly shaded so it looks shorter. As for the button not sure what caused that curling look.

Heavy inking and a worn plate. And one could collect these for 100 years and not come close to seeing every minor variety. Billions is a lot of stamps, and 56x400 = 22,400 positions. Which changed over time because of plate wear.

Wert was the flyspecking champ here. May he rest in peace.

I enjoy some flyspecking. You can see the ear tendency is already there, made stronger with overinking and wear.

The button is quite unique. Like the DID Toga button, you have found the "SAVE" button. Not sure exactly the cause, but as you zoom back out, the original lines are more apparent.