yes, this leader card is at the bottom of one slit on the 1st series printing.

1961 Topps Norm Larker #130

Top of card can is found with missing blue ink (sky) due to a horizontal white bar. I believe later in the print run they attempted to disguise this by washing out the sky and making the top all white. Or it could just be less blue ink?

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Good one Joe

Just bought this from fellow board member. Not sure if it has been posted before or not, The red line in bottom below glove is not common but not scarce either


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I consider different stocks to be a variation, and so this isn't a RPD for me, but I think many of you guys are doing RPD's and not doing stock variations. You pick if this counts :D

I think every white back card of Alston has this frame gap in the top left, and all the cream back cards don't have the gap. The cream back is a little easier in series 1 but the white back/frame gap card isn't difficult at all. I'm pretty sure this is a clue to which stock was the initial run, I have most of series 1 with both backs but haven't finished hunting down all the RPD's with both backs and observed enough to know if they probably don't exist with a certain back. I do think Alston here implies that the two stocks were not done at the same time.

#197 Dick Selma can be found with this little mark at top from the printing sheet, if it is cut off center a little bit (not all cards with more space at top show it, actually very few of them do). I wouldn't technically consider this a recurring defect or a print variation, but it seems close enough to note and the kind of thing we like here. It was worth .50 to grab one and add a notation in my spreadsheet.

Just checked mine. As you said, the white back has the notch, cream back does not.

Mike

I generally pursue stock differences if recognized in the Standard Catalog or by PSA. But for 68 while I did the MB set I have not pursued the other back color differences in that set. I gave up on 1991 Topps a free pursuing different backs for awhile. I know there are many differences in many sets but at my age I am starting to wind down on the pursuit of variants. However I enjoy seeing all the stuff you and others post here

Thank you! I'm pretty sure it works this way but then again lots of cards I don't expect to exist end up cropping up

I've been doing the completely arbitrary and personal 'I collect a stock variety if it is apparent enough at a glance that I can tell in an eBay listing which version it is without zooming in'. I skip the superstars, getting a second Joe Sparma for thirty nine cents on COMC is a fun cross-off on my checklist, paying for another Hank Aaron isn't really worth it to me.

I'm getting pretty deep into the Milton Bradley's, mostly stuck on the 22 Hot Rod cards in the set. They aren't any rarer, but people just don't bother to sell them since they aren't worth much. I need the Ryan still....

This one is interesting, to me anyway. Bowman 1950 cards 181 to 252 can be found with or without the copyright on the back. Cards with no copyrights are tougher, and no copyrights from 181 to 210 are very tough to find.

Card 245 Papai can be found not only with copyright and without, but also with a blue arc on the bottom front. The arc versions are scarce but occur on both the copyright and no copyright versions, which is what I found interesting.

I think Thomas may have posted the arc version previously

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