Junk era variations: let's try to confirm some elusive ones
A whole lot of the people here are familiar with Dick Gilkseon's E&V guide, Bob Lemke and Rich Klein's work at SCD and Beckett (and COMC) and maintain interest in the odd variations documented in these guides and other circulating wantlists so I figured it would be interesting to attempt to confirm some of the more elusive stuff from the 80s and 90s.
I'll start. Can anyone confirm the following cards exist:
I'd really love to be confirm as many of these as possible. But also very eager to see what others are hoping to confirm the existence of. |
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It's been a number of years, but when I was building a master 1991 Topps set, I became convinced Efrain Valdez with the wrong B'Day doesn't exist.
I believe there was once an 'image' of such a variation on TCDB but it's long gone. When I was building my 1983 Donruss set, they had an image there of a 3rd Bryn Smith variation, but it too was taken down and was assuredly a fake. |
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Like a number of the cards in the OP, I would add one I suspect does not actually exist but could and would be a very exciting 'junk find' and I would love to see.
1990 Pro Set #754 Jim Morrissey, as appeared on the original checklists. 1990 Pro Set is a variation hunters goldmine, and one of my favorite cheap sets of the junk era for its excellent photography. #754 is Steve Tasker in the actual set, but Pro Set's early checklists listed Morrissey and considering the huge amount of print runs they did at this time and the very small % of 1990 Pro Set cards people actually look at, it's entirely possible it does exist somewhere. |
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Incidentally, it's a shame Pro Set is so overproduced that it's 'junk' and doesn't get looked at by more people than just the variation geeks - they picked excellent photographs. Comparing 1989 Topps with its sideline photos of guys drinking water and looking the other direction versus the 1989 Pro Set photos is embarrassing for Topps. Score, Pro Set and then Upper Deck were really competing to put out good product. The junk football era has some of the best football cards if looked at as pure fun instead of for value. |
Pretty much forgot about this one
This was in either the Beckett annual or the SCD one, I dont recall, for many editions. I recall chasing it in the early days of sportlots, buying bulk lots blind. |
I remember looking for that one
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I'd still like to see a 1990 Donruss #659 Nolan Ryan 5,000 K with the correct back but numbered #665. Never heard of anyone that's seen one but I'm holding out hope.
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Probably the ghost Ive chased the hardest since acquiring Gilkeson's book in the early 00s...
The card's copyright area is very vulnerable to printing mishaps creating all kinds of odd dates (1957 or 198? for examples) but after looking at several thousand copies of this card over the years, I have yet to see a 1985 date on one. Interesting to note that 1987 Topps had issues with some factory sets getting packaged in boxes with 1985 copyrights on them. |
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