My latest 69 Topps Variation Pickups
 

I actually came across three 69 variation cards I thought I would never find. I am very happy to add these to my ever decreasing list of 69 variations. The Gosger, Shepard, and Quilici I do not believe have been added to this thread. Others listed, pretty sure they have.

Jim Gosger Blue Band on Bat
Larry Shepard Blue Streak
Frank Quilici Splotchy red band on back of card.

The other ones:

Gaylord Perry White Letter Wide number obscure on back
Gaylord Perry Yellow Letter Thin number obscure on back
Jimmie Hall Pink Top Right part of card
Ken Suarez Partial Last Name
And a couple of the Ray Washburn variations.

Cheers,

Butch

My Latest 70 Topps Variation Pickups
 

And now the 70's I recently came across too.

I have been looking for the 70 Checklist 4th series bottom 4 names smudges for quite some time and finally came across one.

The Expos team variation has a blob over the team name on the reverse.
Two of the ones I have are different blobs but still blobs.
The third one, I'm not exactly sure of it fitting the variation description I have: "Blob over team name and smudges on the card." So, I am taking a bit of a liberty thinking the red smudges are part of the variation. That is unless someone here can override that card with the actual one.

The Two Hegan Blue Sky's on right are slightly different variations of each other, so I got them both.

Chipping away at the 70 Topps Variations with these additions as well!!!

Cheers,

Butch

Great find Butch on the checklist, thats a new one for me:). I am guessing you are aware there is the brown and red bat versions?

Thanks John,

I am familiar with the bat variations as well.

Cheers,

Butch

Hi Butch, curious would you have a copy of the 1972 Topps - #15 Walt Williams with red blob next to face? I do not have the card and actually never seen one for sale. I have the attached old pic, not sure where I got it. Not even sure it is real or just a one off card. Thx John

John,

No sir I do not have that variation. That would be a new one for me as well. I will say that if another one does exist there are a couple of fine gentleman here that may have one and hopefully will respond to your question.

There are a bunch of great variation gatherers here and it is bound to show up in someone's PC.

And now, I shall add that one to my 72 list. ;-)

Cheers and keep hunting!

Butch

Thanks Butch. Not sure if you classify difficulty level, but this would be rated extremely hard to find. I have looked for this one many years with no luck. Be interesting to see if someone reports they have one. John

This one might be already well known but I wasn't aware of it. While looking at 1961 Topps 6th Series cards on TradingCardDataBase for another reason I noticed they had this card listed as a variation, 1961 Topps 473 Bobby Shantz with and without a green circle on the back of the card. I think it's a neat recurring print flaw but I wouldn't consider it a bona fide variation.

Sometimes it is more a pain level than a difficulty level. Case in point: It is painful for me to know I will never own a 1990 Frank Thomas NNOF as well as the 1969 Topps Pittsburgh Rookie card with no black outline. Difficulty and Pain level are both high for me.

So some sets I will never get to a complete Master Set level. But the pain and difficulty with other sets is much less and the chances higher that I will get to a master set level.

Anyways, that is how it works in my crazy way of thinking about it. Mind you, I will continue to collect and have fun doing it.

Nature of the beast in collecting variations…..

Cheers,

Butch

Butch, Do you believe there is really a "complete Master Set level" that someone has? I would question that as there maybe a known complete Master Set level, but new variations can be found unexpectedly. Today you have a master set, but tomorrow, crap I do not have that one. Perfect example the 72 red dot I reported, John