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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop (Post 2011969)

It was a chore collecting all the error and correction cards, if only because many were so minor. Maybe John is right it was detected and corrected early with the other errors. But I would guess the error and corrected cards are both more plentiful than these, right ?

It was definitely corrected very early in the first printing, none of the other 1954 Bowman error/variations are anywhere near as scarce as the Erskine loops card.

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Originally Posted by aronbenabe (Post 2013439)

Giant sized 1968 Topps card of Orlando Pena

What are we supposed to be looking at? Blemish on the collar?

The first name is supposed to be in black, as it is on all cards in this set.

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Originally Posted by aronbenabe (Post 2013448)

The first name is supposed to be in black, as it is on all cards in this set.

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Light printing of a specific color, in this case black, is common .... if there was missing print versus light print, than that would be uncommon, IMO.

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Thanks for your response, but i beg to differ. Firstly, this is a sliver color, not an expert but it seems to be at the opposite spectrum of black. Second, I’ve probably seen over 10,000 Topps 1968 cards in my adulthood and never came across another one from that set....it seems indeed quite rare.

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Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes (Post 2013484)

Light printing of a specific color, in this case black, is common .... if there was missing print versus light print, than that would be uncommon, IMO.

I agree. The border also has the same light printing.

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Originally Posted by aronbenabe (Post 2013988)

OK...I wasn't aware that silver was one of the four colors used in the printing process. In my experience, it is not uncommon for sheets being printed by Topps to be printed when one of the four ink colors were running low during the printing process producing a lighter than expected appearance of what was printed.

Light black print, or any light print from any of the other three primary colors is common.... occurrences of such would not be considered "quite rare". Overall print quality with 68s in regards to color levels, IMO, is better than other years.

Not really big into light print anomalies, but here are few "light" and missing print anomalies which I more enjoy. The 68 Schofield card appears to have the same lightness in it's black print as your Pena card. The Ricketts has both missing and low ink. The Marichal has low red ink as does the 80 Hassey card. The 82 Ozzie has low black ink as do many other cards from the 82 set. The 73 FB card is missing an entire color ....