Al, the two on the right are the two I have and have consistently seen over the years.....from the scan, I can't tell what the variation is on the card on the left though.

Northrup
 

I was just including the common card with the other two

That is what I thought, but with one of the world's largest collectors of Topps variations, I wanted to be sure that there was not some obscure variation I had missed on this card.

https://comimg.azurewebsites.net/i/B...zoom&side=back
1960 Topps #7 Master and Mentor with Willie Mays. This one has a brown bar on the reverse to the left of the title box that is not on any other copy on COMC.

It's not miscut, since the card is nicely centered. Must be a variation based on being on multiple sheets/different series? Anyone else have one? Is it cataloged anywhere? This would be a good one to have listed as a variation on PSA.

1960
 

Very interesting John. Either Tom or George here or elsewhere pointed out a similar oddity on two 1960 backs. Conley ( 293) and Chiti (339) can be found with an errant "Batting Record" box ( Chiti at top back, Conley lower back) The box seems to appear on both cards no matter how cut. Just seems to be an out of place box on the sheet/. But yours appears much scarcer as the Chiti and Conley both have the box but in different degrees.

The Conley has front differences as well on the insert

http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1472227317
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/...psgvceckfo.jpg

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...L%20miscut.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...t%20miscut.jpg

Oddities
 

You could collect hobby recognized variations, recurring print defects, one time print defects, out of registrations, wrong backs ( or fronts :)), blank backs, proofs, miscuts , or just some of the above. Sometime back I chose to stick to recognized variations and recurring print defects on the theory there has to be some limits;)

I still wonder if one searched long enough you could find a variant for any pre 1981 post war card ( The only pre war set I collect also has a variation for each card in the set:))

There is even less demand for those wuth the error on the back:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...psh8lsarxo.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...pswf1azo7b.jpg

Mike

I'm almost certain that would be possible. Post 1981, say through at least 1991 it's almost guaranteed. Haven't found all of them yet, but have found differences that should affect the entire set.

Some of them of course are really trivial, or only visible with a magnifier.

Steve B

I feel sorry for Topps employees working in the print shop in this era. In what other occupation are your screw ups, mess ups and inattentiveness this well documented? :-D