Digging through the safe today i came across these guy's...so I scanned them and here they are... You can see the offset and its reduction as the notes were printed.. along the right side on the reverse.....pretty cool. RickieB
Now those notes are ultra cool!!! Where did you get those!! Believe it or not the best place i found to get crisp gem notes Is actually at the Grocery Store they have those new self pay Machines and you get gem sequential notes has change! no Errors yet though!!
mpcusa.. you know I cant recall where..but the odd thing is it looks like there was a folding error that caused the offset as well.. I can not be 100% sure but look at how sharp the offset ends on each note...I have a folding error that is vey distinct and sharp like this...really makes me wonder. Anyone else have any insight as to how this type of offset would occur without a folding error before these notes?? RickieB
One sheet goes through the second (face) printing operation with a corner folded down, so that some of the ink intended for the face side of that sheet actually ends up on the flexible "blanket" that presses the sheets against the printing plate. Then when the next sheet comes along, that ink ends up being transferred to the wrong (back) side of that sheet. What's interesting about your notes is that they're consecutive serials, and hence different plate numbers. So there must've been three folded sheets in a row, creating offsets on three of the four plates that were on the press at the time. That's how each of the three notes manages to have a *different* amount of the face design present on the back. (Normally, an offset will only affect one of the four plates on the press, so every fourth note in the strap will show the error--always covering exactly the same portion of the note, but getting gradually fainter until it fades away entirely.) If a sheet is torn rather than folded, then the offset area can have an irregular boundary instead of a straight crisp edge like this. And if the press misfeeds completely so that no sheet is present at all, then the offset can affect the entire next sheet rather than just a small area of it....
i wil second that that are some sweet notes RickieB! And to read the explanation from Numbers, it seems the 9 planets and the 7 closest suns were all in alignment with the super black hole in the cneter of our galaxy
Numbers... thanks for that information. I just knew there had to be a folding error involved, the offsets just eneded to abruptly and were very sharp. Nice to know how this occured, my question now is do you know of any other triplicates or above out there? Thanks.. RickieB
