Lot # 99: 1915 E145 Cracker Jack #81 Jim Delehanty PSA EX 5 (MC) Print Error!

Category: 1900-1948

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Item was in Auction "Inaugural Auction",
which ran from 10/5/2012 4:00 PM to
10/28/2012 3:27 AM



While widely-collected prewar sets like T206 and N172 have entire subcultures of collectors devoted to print errors back oddities and miscuts collectors of 1915 Cracker Jacks typically do not have that same type of collector. This is typically because while issues like T206 have many documented examples of poor quality control that have helped scholars of those sets better understand their means of production E145 Cracker Jacks are usually near-perfect in print quality color and registration.The primary issue with Cracker Jacks condition-wise deal with the staining that comes from the popcorn and caramel inside a Cracker Jack box along with the centering issues common to the era. While there are a great deal of stained or off-center CJs available we don"t often see print defects. Presented here is that rare anomaly one of two 1915 Cracker Jacks we"re offering in this auction that suffer from not one but two print defects. This Jim Delehanty despite being graded EX 5 (MC) by PSA suffers not only from the appearance of a miscut right edge but is severely out of register.Extremely uncommon for the issue the chief problem with this card is not the cut but the registration. The dark red ink appears off-register by a full sixteenth of an inch. What"s interesting is the appearance of what seems to be a second pass of red ink much lighter than the dominant dark red that appears properly registered. This might indicate that perhaps the cards were printed with two passes of red ink possibly accounting for the vivid red hue of the cards.It is the misregistered red ink that results in the impression of the card being miscut. In reality the card is properly cut but the off-registered deep red is so far to the right that the cut appears off. Looking at the rest of the card - the lettering the image and the other colors - you"ll see that the card is actually not miscut at all.Did this card make it into circulation? Was it scrapped by the quality control of Rueckheim Bros. & Eckstein after production and subsequently taken out the back door by an employee? Perhaps we"ll never know - but this card is a very cool example of a seldom-seen Cracker Jack print anomaly.

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