Bill, if there were two distinct print runs with two sets of film stripped then most likely there would be some variation for every green tint card since stripping cannot be done identically due to the nature of handwork involved.
So, to revise my initial post on where these fit in the scheme of variations and anomalies, perhaps they should all be classified as true variations, though with the slightest of differences in some cases.
Thanks for the link Al, that was an interesting article, though it didn;t quite close the case on where the green tints originated.
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Originally Posted by brob28
I did not read Al's link. But I think the story goes that Topps was expecting a lot of demand for the cards and outsourced some printing to meet expected demand to a second company that was not a regular source. The GT's originate from that source. Keith, I'm 99% certain that there is cropping differences on all GT's - on a few though it's very tough to spot.
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