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ERRORS & CURIOSITIES

National Geographical
Card Type Description

#52 - Persia
Printing error I've acquired one of these cards which is completely missing the text describing Persia's area, population, and government, which normally appears in the lower left corner of this card.

ERROR / VARIETY

NORMAL CARD

I don't know if this text was a design error from an early printing which was quickly corrected (which should make it a "variety", rather than an "error"), or if the text was simply not printed on some cards due to an inking problem on one of the lithographic stones or perhaps a mistake that allowed a sheet of the cards to bypass a step in the printing process. This variety/error was found on a card with the "Arbuckle's" punctuation in the Explanatory text on the back.


#63 - Central Africa
Printing error I've acquired one of these cards with an incorrect "No. 68" on the reverse. Additionally, the text on the reverse is printed in the opposite orientation to what is normally found on cards in this series. That is to say, the front top edge of the card is aligned with the back right edge, instead of the back left edge. Also, as can be seen in the scan, below, the text is significantly misaligned. This error was found on a card with the "Arbuckles'" punctuation variety on the back.

It seems probable that at least one of the larger press sheets on which these cards were originally printed (and which likely had multiple designs on each sheet) was reversed between the front and back printing.


#66 - Bolivia
Printing error I've acquired one of these cards which has an unprinted, blank back. All other aspects of this card seem to be consistent with a normal card: color, size, thickness, etc. The positioning of the copyright text is consistent with that found on cards with the "Arbuckles'" punctuation in the Explanatory text on the back.