1962 Green Tints
Mike is the go to guy for info on this group of variations, but in general the entire 2nd series of the 1962 set, cards 110-196 can be found with two distinct printing variations. The first printing, by one production group, resulted in cards that had a greenish tint and were a mite blurry to boot. Another production group was used to correct this quality issue and the second printing is much sharper and not greenish. There were also some pose variations in the second printing that impact cards 129, 132, 139, 147,, 174, 176, and 190. The green tints are scarcer than the corrected cards but not rare and you can likely find a some on ebay right now with a search for "Topps 1962 green tint".
By the way, Topps intentionally recreated the green tint phenomena in the 2011 Heritage set, which is based on the 1962 design. Cards 110-158 and 160 to 196 can be found in green tint or red or black depending on what retailer sold the cards.
In the original 1962 set there are 4 versions of card 139...Ruth with and without the foul pole...and Hal Reniff portrait or pitching
Last edited by ALR-bishop; 04-26-2012 at 06:00 PM.
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