The '73 Kaline Band Aid Variation Train Keeps A-Rollin'...

[savedfrommyspokes]

Yes, the Band-Aid version is out in general circulation. I have only been searching for it for the last 6 months....checking new BIN listings on ebay several times a day. In the last 6 months, I may have missed a few, but I have seen only three (most recently, one auction of a lot ended on the 14th for $3) copies with Band-Aid out of the 100+ that have sold and the nearly 100 currently listed. So maybe 1-2% of the copies of this card have the Band-Aid? I also wonder when PSA will begin to recognize this variation?

[ALR-bishop]

That's cool Darren. Glad his head did not explode in the last frame

This would seem to be one that SCD, Beckett and PSA should recognize as a variation, even under an intentional change definition.

My thanks to Cliff Bowman for helping me get one

[Bob Lemke]

I was editor of the Standard Catalog for many years between 1981-2006 and this is the first I can recall hearing of the band-aid variation on 1973 Topps Kaline.

I certainly would have added the variation to the listings if I had encountered it; it is clear that this was an intentional change.

It must be quite scarce to have gone "officially" undetected for so long.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Bob Lemke

I was editor of the Standard Catalog for many years between 1981-2006 and this is the first I can recall hearing of the band-aid variation on 1973 Topps Kaline.

I certainly would have added the variation to the listings if I had encountered it; it is clear that this was an intentional change.

It must be quite scarce to have gone "officially" undetected for so long.

Well, get on the phone with someone, Bob!!

And bring up how there are 3 distinctly different versions (not just 2) of a few of the manager/coaches cards, too.

[ALR-bishop]

Always nice to have Bob make a visit

[Bob Lemke]

I know in my last stint as "contributing editor" I added a few more of the manager/coaches variations to the data base, but I don't know if they made it to print or not.

It's so damn discouraging that in trying to save a few bucks the recent/current management at F+W tried to make the SCBC data base fit into a platform that was never meant to handle such things. So much seems to have been lost, some of it apparently irretrievably.

[Rich Klein]

I found at least one in the COMC Database (It's already been sold) and have another 100 or so to look through. The COMC Database has also been appropriately updated.

My eyes are not always that good so if someone else wants to look and find more I'll move those over as well.

With the recent announcement about F&W bankruptcy, Mr. Lemke's comment is even more poignant. Sometimes when you reduce what you think are non-essential costs, they actually are the most essential. Why? Eventually your readers notice the lack of effort and leave you

Rich