1959 Topps color / toning variations

[bnorth]

The duller less bright cards are faded from sitting out on display 99.9% of the time. As an example you won't see it as often in the 61 Topps because they do not fade as easily.

If you have any specific questions or cards I would be glad to help.

EDIT: As a collector of print errors it bothers me a lot and I avoid them only because it is one of my pet peeves.

[jchcollins]

Thanks. The sitting out on display makes sense, but I was not sure if maybe it was a factory issue in some cases as well.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Thanks. The sitting out on display makes sense, but I was not sure if maybe it was a factory issue in some cases as well.

If you search this site for 58 Hank Aaron Blue front cards I have put up some examples of faded cards, some things to look for and a dull yellow is a huge red flag that the card did not leave the factory that way.

[ALR-bishop]

If some ink color runs low during a run you can get differences. The 82 Blackless cards can be found with black, no black and in between gray. In the 89 and 85 sets have all number of color variances in the team or name banners. I think colors may vary some series to series in a set. There are some legendary color difference backgrounds in the 52 set. Pick any card and search it closely for a month on eBay and my guess is you will find some differences somewhere

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

If some ink color runs low during a run you can get differences. The 82 Blackless cards can be found with black, no black and in between gray. In the 89 and 85 sets have all number of color variances in the team or name banners. I think colors may vary some series to series in a set. There are some legendary color difference backgrounds in the 52 set. Pick any card and search it closely for a month on eBay and my guess is you will find some differences somewhere

Colors can vary greatly from card to card. I call this the tint to the color. I have seen what I call slime ball sellers look through for an example 20 1991 Topps Wade Boggs cards and find the 2 with the most color variation and list them on eBay as a real variation for a huge premium.

By dull for faded cards the color looks less glossy kind of like the regular Topps compared to the Venezuelan cards only one or more colors will be lighter colored also. Hope this makes sense, it is easy to explain in person with a few examples in hand.

[Rookiemonster]

I noticed the 1959 hank Aaron ( also yellow ) has a weird little knotch on the top yellow border on some card and not on the others . As far as the color goes I've seen faded yellow bright yellow and the variation to me would be almost a golden yellow

[PolarBear]

Originally Posted by bnorth

The duller less bright cards are faded from sitting out on display 99.9% of the time.

......it bothers me a lot and I avoid them only because it is one of my pet peeves.

Agree 100% on both points.

[jchcollins]

This is the card in question in a "non-color enhanced" scan. Still looks pretty nice on the whole, but it is one of the duller ones and yes I would agree with "golden" yellow vs. some that you see that are the brighter ones.