As a person who actually wrote an E&V Column back in the day I can assure you that we all had individual ways of looking at things.
The Thomas NNOF came out of packs that way and it was such an obvious difference that it should have been a variation noted as such in 1990. Instead it did take a couple of years for widespread recognition.
I will say even today doing this type of work for COMC I'm more OK than ever with these subtle differences. Even if it's just in printing, if there is enough of a difference I don't mind adding it to the DB. That's on both a knowledge and a business sense.
To me the purest variation is something akin to the 1962 Topps Wally Moon card in which the poses are obviously different. The 1961 Fairly is an obvious printing issue but again fairly obvious which is why I'm fine with that one as well.
But, in reality, it's sometimes an individual decision but I'll listen to any and all logic on any of these
Rich
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