I'll be adding pages as new material appears which is what is happening now.
Some new auctions and some correspondance with fellow Armour collector SFLAYANK has brought the following to light:
1959 Pinks:
Most think there are basically a dark pink and a light pink which I showed you in earlier blogs when we went over the 1959 colors. Well South Florida has brought to my attention that there are actually 3 shades. Sure enough last week I picked up the medium Turley in an auction and can confirm the existance of the 3 shades.
1960 Blues:
We also began comparing 1960 light blues and we now can confirm anoher shade of blue between the known "grey blue " and the common "pale blue". I have put all of them in the same image for your reference. Everything needs a name so we'll call this one South Florida Blue.
We could speculate on why so many colors and why some are rare, but we will never know, since we do not know how many sites the coins were manufactured at. If they were made at multiple sites (see conclusions about bust tilts coming from more than one mold) than the plastic mixers may simply not have matched the colors. What we can say from looking at literally thousands of these is that within a shade the color matches are exact and reproducible. Aqua is aqua, navy is navy. Just like when you buy paint from a Home Depot !
UPDATE added 2/1/2013
SFLA Yank, undoubtedly king of Armour Mantles, sent the following pic of all of the now known 1960 Mantle blues:
1959 Speckeled:
There was also a major auction of 1959 speckeled coins this past week. Have not seen more than a half dozen speckeled coins come up for auction in the last decade and this week there were 5.
Check back in a few days and I will load some pics to show that the colors of the speckeled coins are more complex than we originally thought . ......ArmourPhil
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