1969 Topps Background Color Variations
 

I recently picked up this 1969 Topps Don Meredith on eBay. If it looks a little odd, it's because the background color is blue instead of the normal green. Everything about the card looks legit, and there doesn't seem to be any missing colors during the printing process to cause this. I can't find any info on this background variation for cards in this set. Does anyone know anything more about this or know how many cards may have different background color variations in this set?

http://www.thecowboysguide.com/misc/...edith_blue.jpg

The normal green background Meredith...
http://www.thecowboysguide.com/misc/1969Meredith-1.jpg

Looks like it missed the Yellow color pass, neat card.

Agreed. If you look at the 'green' card, the yellow is very prominent in Dandy Don's skin tones (and obviously in the background mix of blue and yellow to arrive at green). On the 'blue' card, they're altogether missing.

I can see that now. Thanks guys!

99.99% of the time cards that should have a green background that is blue are altered.

Thanks for the response. What alteration would result in this happening?

Removing the yellow ink?

I would assume so, but how? Not that I want to try this. Just curious if it's an easy alteration.

I was kidding, Steve. As someone suggested above, it looks like it missed the yellow color pass. Check out the following eBay auction for 1960 Fleer proofs. You can see what the same card looks like with and without the yellow.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1915913...466&rmvSB=true

I guess I'm a gullible pessimist. I tend to believe the %99.99 chance of alteration and wanted to know if this was the case, what did the person that did it go through to achieve the outcome. I got the card for under $10 and that's about the average for that card unaltered. Another blue Meredith popped up a couple months later and I'm not sure if it was the same seller because my eBay history doesn't go back that far to tell.

Here is a link to a post that will kind of explain green to blue color change.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=205654

It is hard to tell from a picture but the card the OP showed looks faded not missing color.