NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL
#52 - PERSIA
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1889
Lithographer: Donaldson Brothers
Area: 636,000 sq. mi
Population: 7,650,000
Government: Monarchy
Scenes: Ottar of Roses; Native Carpet Weaver; Diving for
Pearls
Although the cards in this
series didn't include any additional descriptive
information for the individual countries, the
subsequently issued
Illustrated Atlas of Fifty Principal Nations of the World
did devote several paragraphs to
Persia
| Printing Variety or Error |
| Shown below are
detailed images of the lower left corner of two
Persia cards that I have in my collection. The
first card has the normal text with the area,
population, and government shown in black on a
green background. The second omits that
information and has no printing at all in the
green area.
I don't know if this text was inadvertently left off the card in an early printing (a true "variety"), 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 (an "error"). This variety/error was found on a card with the "Arbuckle's" spelling in the Explanatory text on the back. If anyone else has run across a card similar to this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. |
NORMAL |
VARIETY / ERROR |
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