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Great info Steve. I am another one that loves this stuff but there is way too much going on with this set for me to collect it.
Here is a pic of one of my stranger 91 cards. In hand it looks to just be missing the red ink on the back. The light yellow tint is only noticeable in pictures of the card taken outside in sunlight. The entire front and back of the card glows brightly under a black light. |
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Anyone know where the guys in the white coats took Peter. We could chip in and send him a couple of variants to cheer him up
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I'm breaking a full case of 1987 Donruss and writing down the sequence of every card.
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What happens when the smart kid who became a lawyer hangs out with the weird mechanic kid and then runs into a slow spot in business. Pretty much all the junkwax sets are like this, to me fascinating and so cheap I can collect a whole lot of them. Unfortunately they're also a huge time waster, and outside of a handful of cards are unlikely to be worth much in my lifetime. They are a bit fun though. Steve B |
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That was pretty much what I got whenever I bought a full box. None of whatever was the big card at the time.
About the only one I did well with was from an auction. A box of ...I don't even recall what except it was cellos. But it was a bunch of cellos with maybe only 4 different commons on the front. Everyone else avoided it because it had obviously been tampered with so I got it cheap. Like under the original retail cheap. Whoever had it before had decoded the sequence or had paid for a list, and every pack had a good rookie or star inside. Traded them all for some other piece of junk that interested me at the time. At least I got some free cards out of it. |
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Steve,
Did you notice if the 1991 Topps cards had brighteners added to the red ink? I have spent a lot of time with the 1991 Topps DS set and most if not all seem to have brightener added to the red ink. Since the DS set was printed in the early stages on the 1991 Topps print run, this should mean that the 1991 Topps set was printed mainly with the red brightener as well. I had always wondered what % of 1991 Topps production had the brightener added....wondering if you have an answer to that question. Impressive that you have cataloged all of this. Thanks in advance. Z Last edited by Zach Wheat; 07-21-2017 at 01:46 PM. |
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I think you'd mentioned the glowing as being from a yellow layer. I had doubts, because I'd expect to see some with that layer showing from bad registration. I'll have to take a few outside. When I went through my big batch of 91s years ago, I found a few different backs, the "tough" ones react to uv, but oddly. Not the bright glow, but a really dark red. Hard to tell from the ones that don't react, and it takes a strong blacklight. I didn't get far on the fronts, but did find a couple that reacted with a green glow, not strong but visible and probably from the clearcoat or gloss used. The UV reacting backs go back into at least 84-85, again, not anywhere near as strong as the 91s, but obviously reactive. Steve B Last edited by steve B; 07-21-2017 at 11:01 AM. Reason: added a sentence I forgot. |
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