print variation
 

I found this looking though my dup box. It is not a marker, I looked with my loop. It looks like the black just bled into the Philadelphia Phillies.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Topps did not mean to send this out this way:

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1975 Topps Mini Steve Garvey; I will call him "Mini Miscut."

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Garvey
 

Adam-- is that top border uneven ?

We are all familiar with the 1966 Bob Heffner 'purple tree' variation, but take a look at the extreme craziness of this sucker…
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Hef
 

Good one Darren. Had not seen that version

I was unaware of the purple tree variation, nice!

Going thru my 61 Post Cereal cards, card #153 Andre Rodgers (Traded Line), which has 2 different background colors. Not sure exactly if a color ran out during the printing process of the one or the other. One card has a beige background and the other has a sky blue color. Found also that some facial details are better on some cards vs. others.
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In building my 61 Post set, I found a quite a few of these background color variations. These background color variations seem to be equally plentiful no matter the background, so I have opted to keep just the best looking example of each card with out regards to the background.

It is not just different color in the back ground. The photo is also cropped different.

No it is the black ink framing the bottom of the next card image.