Cliff, hats off to you sir. This card is a needle in a haystack. I have been looking since you mentioned it and just do not see it listed anywhere.

Good on you! And I will keep looking too. I may have to be satisfied with a bootleg picture of Joe. :-)

Cheers,

B.T.

1955 Topps Print Error
 

Was going through a stack of 1955 Topps and came across this printing error on the back of the Fowler card. The words "Year," & "Life" are at the top and printed in black ink not green. The word "Topps" is printed not in the baseball but just below it. And to Top it off the title bar is printed below the Stats line. The cartoon says ? Puzzlers. I suppose the real puzzle is how this happened.

Thanks for looking,

Joe

The green screen went over the sheet when it was an inch out of alignment. The words at top are actually from the bottom of the card above it. Cool find, though is it just a bad registration issue.

Good one Joe

I don't remember if this one has been mentioned here or not, Topps replaced Ed Bouchee with a second Jim Bunning on the 1958 Second Series sheet creating a double print of Bunning, making a photo cropping variation similar to the eleven double printed cards in the 1963 Topps Fifth Series sheet. The pinstripe hits the Tigers emblem in the center of the circle and the T on his uniform is cut off at the end on one version, the second version has the pinstripe more to the left hitting the Tigers emblem circle and the end of the T on his uniform is visible.

Either you or someone else told me about this one because I have both.

Still looking and hoping for a pulled Bouche proof :rolleyes:

Not in the same League as Joe's above but maybe an honorable mention

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...-21_153331.jpg

1956 Frank Malzone Variations
 

Each of these three versions: no blob, small blob, larger blob, are fairly common. Malzone was double-printed, but I don't know why there would be three versions (and maybe more).

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1632360416

Always looking for 1956 salesman samples, miscuts, sheet cuts, printer's defects, panels, overprints and other errors.

My group of Malzones. Blob at top. Then faded blob. Then no blob. But my no blob seems to have another defect. It is not a crease but maybe an after production mark rather than a printing defect

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...-27_180124.jpg
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...-27_181144.jpg

I know this one has been discussed before, so forgive me. We all know that the vast majority of 60's era Topps checklists had multiple variations, as some (most) appeared across two series' printings and they occupied multiple positions on the print sheets themselves. This led to slight (but distinct) differences in the cropping of pictures and whatnot.

Well, I finally made an animated gif of the 1969 Topps #412 Mickey Mantle Checklist to highlight the differences in that particular card...


https://i.imgur.com/Vk8q8rR.gif

To distinguish the two, I refer to them as 'high chin' and 'low chin.' (I guess I should've went with something more clever like 'hi-hat,' but as usual, the drummer gets ignored.) On normal size cards, the most obvious tell is the sky above the Mick. One looks huge, while the other is more of a sliver. Besides the chin and sky, there are other strange things afoot, too. The yellow rectangles are significantly different across the two printings, as the 'high chin' has much larger and fuller boxes, with only a hair's width separating them. And the 'low chin' version has the "SPECIAL!" area awkwardly tilted, as the rest of the line of text is pretty level.

If I had to guess, I would assume that there is probably at least one more (real, cropping oriented) version of this card.


Edited to add: Whoops! Forgot to mention that I know these are the Boswell (on back) variations, but I was doing this as a front-only way to distinguish the versions. The 'low chin' versions (big sky) are the ones with the fully intact Boswell name on back.