| Strictly speaking they aren't a separate category - the original card is
in fact a public issue with code 110-007. It is a definitive pastel-coloured
card produced between 1985 and 1992 (or thereabouts), and often available
from vending machines. For some reason, rather than buying "white" cards for
printing, the 110-007 cards became particularly popular as the base for
gold-leaf printing. So although they were bought and printed like "white"
cards, they are in fact an overprint of the definitive cards. You will
notice that there is no NTT logo on these cards: this is because it was on
the front of the card but has been printed over ! |