print defect?
 

What type of print error is this blue streak? Is it recurring across the sheet? I saw about 12% of the cards listed for 1966, #381 with it this morning, but did not see others.

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Probably a defective red plate so the blue shows through instead of being seen as purple.

If it's on the edge there might not be others. if it's in the middle somewhere the card to the right of it might also have a defect.

Was aware of blue line defect, but is that a green smudge on his face too ?

the card is, I believe in column 9. Card 391 is in col 10, and 363 is in col 11

I didn't see that smudge on any of the other blue defect cards, so I assumed it was just a scan artifact. However, most of the blue defect cards also have a line streak on his cheek.

1961 Topps Checklist 3rd Series #189. Is this a known variation, or just a print defect? I find these intriguing as I can't figure out what would cause these boxy areas to occur, especially as text underneath them appears, the bottom box is either yellow or white, and the box varies in size. What's also interesting is that there are two recognized printing variations of this card - Type 1 with copyright on back beginning at card #263 and Type 2 beginning at #264. Of these 3 cards, one is Type 1 and two are Type 2. The last card also has the photo cropped very differently, as uniform number 14 is missing.

http://www.baseballcardstars.com/1961-1.jpg http://www.baseballcardstars.com/1961-2.jpg http://www.baseballcardstars.com/1961-3.jpg

EDIT 11/20: These turned out to be scanner errors - the cards do not contain the defects. Sorry for any confusion. I dod not want to call attention to the seller if they were real defects, so purchased them without verifying with seller. It was not an expensive gamble, but didn't pan out.

That is wild, I can't believe it took fifty nine years to be discovered. My first thought was that it was tape that was holding the sheet in place and they forgot to remove it and that it was a corner card, and sure enough it is the card in the bottom right corner of that sheet. Just a guess on my part. Great find, gracecollector.

Awesome Cliff! That’s a top notch find!


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Great discovery

Thanks for that Cliff and interesting theory on corner tape (great thought to think sheet corner card). I looked at about 300 copies of checklist #189 between eBay and COMC, and these were the only three that I found with the defect. Bought them all. I had just learned that Don Zimmer was the Cub player in the rundown, and was looking for the card to add to my Zim PC. I spotted one with the boxes and said "What the heck?!" and went looking for more.