Show...me...your print variations!
 

Sorry if this has already been covered. I scrolled through about the first 15 pages of this thread and didn’t see it, though: ‘58 Mantle base card and the print defect / variation next to his left eye. The copy I picked up this week has this, and I began to get a little worried as I looked around and saw that others didn’t. But then I began to find them. Including at least one in a PSA 7 slab, so that made me feel a little bit better.

Normal card without print spot:

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Copies with it. The ungraded card here is mine:
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You can see what I’m talking about, straight up from the word “New” in the team name below. Kind of like a fisheye if it were elsewhere on the card. I’ve seen this anywhere from a light blip up to a dark red dot. It seems to occur in maybe one out of 20 or slightly more cards that I looked at on eBay and online. I guess on the whole, if you could choose it’s undesirable, but I don’t know… This doesn’t jump out at me the way print snow on his cap would, or even a similar sized defect on the orange background field probably would.

Weird stuff, but as we know by now, print defects like this are anything but rare on 1958 Topps cards...


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Found this progressive print variation....one copy is partially blackened with excess ink on the "Major....Record" line while on the other copy that entire line is blackened including the area past the left border.

Partial missing Ink

Interesting, I figured that card was probably on a corner of a sheet and sure enough it was. It's recurring, there are a handful on COMC in varying degrees.

Was waiting to share this one in case I got a different copy or it was some sort of weird effect with the scan itself and not actually the card. This is how the card looks. Some sort of black ink bleeding to make it look like Reggie has a very massive birthmark on his face. It almost looks like it could be right if you didn't already know better.

It's recurring, I'm waiting on one from COMC and got another one from a board member a year or two ago. ETA: it looks your copy is a little more extreme than my copies around his mouth and nose.

Already discussed??

A green splotch on Archie Wilson's left eyebrow. Doing a quick search, it seems the majority of his cards have this splotch but there are some that don't.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...ih=578&dpr=1.5

Good one Dale

1954 Topps #34 Jim Rivera: semi-circle at bottom of box on back
https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1954...zoom&side=back

Just picked up there two of John Kennedy from the 1965 Topps set.

Top card has blue bleed on left side of stat box and bottom has blue bleed into cartoon faces.

Mike