Show...me...your print variations!

[ALR-bishop]

Great Dale, not enough that variant guys have to deal with 2 of the 52s and 3 of the 67s, now you give us 2 of the 56s...thanks

[irv]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Great Dale, not enough that variant guys have to deal with 2 of the 52s and 3 of the 67s, now you give us 2 of the 56s...thanks

Has this never been discussed before, or has it been discussed to death already?
I have always loved this card and would like to purchase one sometime soon (if that's a current great idea?) so that is what I noticed while educating myself.
I did do a search about the black dot but came up with nothing. I know the Mays and Robinson printing dots/spots on the 52's have been talked about, discussed before, but I couldn't find anything about this Mantle one?

[ALR-bishop]

On the 52s I know about Robinson, what is the Mays ?

[irv]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

On the 52s I know about Robinson, what is the Mays ?

The Mays ink dot is on the back left part of the card. I forget if all of them have this or just some, however? (bottom left)

[irv]

Another Mantle with the same spot/ink dot.
The one beside it doesn't have it so I assume there were different runs of this card?
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...Auction-120115
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...Auction-120115

[bobsbbcards]

At the risk of Al mocking me endlessly for wandering into this thread (Hi Al!), here is a scan of my 1970 Topps #454 Ron Santo AS card. Note the orange background on the "ALL-STAR" square. I'm going to go look for other examples, but I figured I'd share first.

[bobsbbcards]

Found another. I'm sure that the next post will be "Wow, stupid. Have you not read the previous 82 pages of this thread where all we've done is talk about the oh-so-common 1970 Topps orange Ron Santo variation. Geez Louise." It will be as if my post was on the U.S. postage stamp message board and I started with "Have any of you ever heard of a stamp with an upside down aeroplane?"