TWO WORLD'S COLUMBIAN 25 CENT TICKETS FOR STAND 26

Unusual opportunity to acquire two different colored S26 25 cent WCE tickets.
The first is in outstanding condition with a tight trim at the right. Interesting that this one (#111043) does not appear to have had perforations on the left and right side.

The second, the light green that has an obvious and significant crease, clearly has perforations at both ends. But besides this, there is a VERY strange printing question that I cannot answer. If you will look at the bottom of the ticket, you can see a bit of another ticket that was apparently printed attached below it. That makes little sense and I have never seen this before and I have collected and sold perhaps more WCE stand tickets than anyone else.

Look at the little bit of extra paper at the bottom; you can see very small points of paper left and right, the very top of another ticket. And this mystery of how the ticket was printed can be added to if you look near the left side of that very thin bit of extra paper--The top of an S-number different ticket.

Since most if not all stand tickets have perforations left and right (unless one end is the end of a strip that had no perforation because there was not another ticket that had been attached).

But if all stand tickets were printed with perforations to separate another ticket left and right in a strip or roll, how could there be the remnant of another ticket below this one?

I know that far too many sellers, usually of coins to baseball cards, will seize upon a very, very minor printing or striking error and tout the "error" as worth thousands of dollars. You can see these constantly on ebay. Of course a variety of errors on a range of items can be worth something, from a small amount to thousands of dollars for a true rarity.

This bit of printing at the bottom is an anomally--and an error in printing--which I find quite interesting but not worth some premium. What it does is really add some confusion to understanding how the tickets were printed. It would suggest that the tickets were not only printed in strips or rolls end-to-end but in multiples vertically prited simultaneously.

I can't answer the question this poses but even if it adds no value it certainly makes it more interesting.

This lot consists of both tickets and I hope I do NOT see one of them priced at $5,000 later on ebay due to this "amazing rare" printing error. I recently saw some baseball cards on ebay from different sellers (same card and different errors!) for sale from $500 to $1,000 each. The errors were just ab out the silliest I've ever run across. One of them was a small circle of light ink smaller than the head of a pin that even magnified a great deal was difficult to see. One of the most ludicrous issues of grading any commodity has to be the printing on modern sports cards.

The method of printing the cardboard of sports cards is very much NOT precise or high quality in general. For someone who is a collector and a seller, I'm not supposed to belittle such things...but I can't help it!

I do consider owning the creased ticket as worthwhile until you can replace it with a problem-free example. This lot of two tickets is priced VERY low.