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What's a Printer Error?Red Rose used Walker Press to print millions of cards. Somewhere along the way, the printer made a few goofs. It's just human nature. Sometimes the goof is big (affecting thousands of sets of cards) and sometimes it only affects a few. Usually the goof gets caught at the printers and gets destroyed, end of story. Sometimes the goof does not get caught and winds up in the boxes and into the hands of tea drinkers and finally, into the hands of collectors like us.Is a Printer Error collectable?An error by the printer can be large (like the Rolland-Roland error in series 2) or can only affect a very few cards. If the error is large enough, then more than one or two people can collect it and it has value. If only a few are affected then typically it is not considered collectable because there aren't enough spark interest and raise value. What Does a Small Goof Look Like?
Don has this card and someone else in Canada also has one. That card has the #17 penned on it. Since this error is quite noticeable and only two have ever been spotted (both being #17), it seems unlikely that more than two or three exist like this. Although these cards generate interest, because of the lack of examples, they tend not to send collectors scurrying to their cards to look for similar ones. It is an interesting footnote in the process of printing up tea cards at Walker Press. Wouldn't you like to have strolled through the printer's every time they were ready to print off a new set of cards? How about calculating how many cards got printed by Walker? Do you think it is more than 100,000? How about 500,000? Over a million? Hmmm, which guess is closer? Remember, keep your eyes peeled, even on the common cards. You never know what rare find may be lurking around the corner... just waiting for you to discover it.
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Thanks to Don Scanlan again. He gives us
a glimpse at a mistake done at the printers where the card number appears to
have been omitted. Compare the two Canadian Animals of North America card
number 17s. Look where the No. 17 is supposed to be on the lower card. You can
make out what appear to be three dots (one over the A and two over the N in
ANIMALS). Another website points out that one could transpose the No. 17 over
the dots. Could it be that the stamp with the number got dislodged for a few
sheets? Possibly. Maybe the stamp was dirty and not transferring the ink well.