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

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by lowpopper

Lil some for ya

Is the Murray handcut?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Is the Murray handcut?

All of the 1979 Topps baseball with 1978 backs were either handcut or or more professionally cut by a third party well after 1979. They were only made as a practice run in 1979 with left over 1978 backs and were never meant to be distributed but some of the sheets made it out the backdoor.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Thank you Cliff, as always, spot on input.

Besides the 73 Topps with the wacky backs, how many other Topps issues from the 70s-90s can be found with a different issue on the back due to scraps getting out the back door? I have one of the 91 Topps cards with a baseball front and a FB back, but was not sure what other years may have something like this.

[steve B]

I forget which year, but there were baseball backs with non-sticker mork and mindy sticker fronts.

There were also 78 baseball backs inside bazooka boxes
and black hole card backs inside bazooka boxes.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by steve B

I forget which year, but there were baseball backs with non-sticker mork and mindy sticker fronts.

They were also 1978.

[steve B]

Thanks Cliff.

I have one or two, but I was too lazy to go find them.

The 79front/78 backs were originally sold by a dealer I think from the Baltimore area, in strips. What I heard was that they knew where Topps printer dumped trash, and had a bit of a find one day being there at the same time as the truck that had Topps stuff.
I have a strip I ordered back then, not sure where it is but I know I didn't cut it. It got a bit squashed in shipping, put me off mailorder for a few years.

Topps must have had a ton of leftover 78back only sheets.

Steve B

[savedfrommyspokes]

Found this limited, but recurring print variant on the 69 455 Siebert card. Above the first "I" in Indians there is what appears to be a pen mark, but it is indeed a recurring mark. This is another variant that looks much more obvious in hand.