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I've looked at a bunch of stuff, and I think it's real too. I also have it on good authority that fading black without fading the surrounding ink is very difficult. I actually can't figure out for sure what caused it. The others are almost certainly from a big bit of debris, probably tape obstructing the plate while it was being exposed. If it wasn't then, the next likely problem is a bit of debris in the press preventing that part of the plate from being inked. But the most common of those would be a bit of paper, which of course gets inked, transfers, and looks totally different. Maybe a bit of saran wrap type stuff? That should take ink too, but might not. Usually to repel ink the obstruction has to also hold enough water. Most stuff like that is very transient, not usually hundreds or 1000+ impressions. If it's something blocking the inking, then this could be within the first few impressions. Maybe in the first 5? I have a card that has an additional 4 uninked impressions, so it can extend that many at least. But there doesn't seem to be a shadow of the border, which I'd think should be there. I can't think there was enough damage that a strip of plate got ripped out. With the pressure required, I'd think the underlying cylinder would have been inked but printed poorly. It could be a different blue plate that for some reason had the name on it when the rest didn't. That would be pretty strange, but then, it's Topps... Fortunately, the card has clues! There's a line from what's probably a plate scratch right near the left of the name plate. If it's an on-press obstruction, there should be cards with the same line. Unless the plate got changed right after the obstruction. And Topps wasn't great with registration, if the blue plates ever had the name on them, there should be cards misregistered showing a blue shadow of the name alongside the black printed name. |
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Hey Steve,
Thank a lot for the response. Always like hearing from someone with printing experience. The line (plate scratch) you are talking about - are you referring to the dark line below where the "F" in "Frank" should be? Nearly all the regular NNOFs have this scratch, if that helps at all. You mentioned the number of impressions (population) of the NNOF. One person with 35+years in the printing industry said that the error was likely caught at the printers after 10 minutes. He speculated that this would have created 700-1000. He said that if it were a small number caught, say 100, then the sheets would have been pulled and sent to the bailer. What is consistent with this count is the former Topps employee told me that QC pulled uncut sheets every 1000 or so to check for mistakes and print quality. |
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![]() It would be a very cool card to look at under a microscope and see what is going on with it. |
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Just because we can't imagine how, doesn't mean the how doesn't exist. Arthur
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This card could be many different things but it is not a real 1990 Topps Frank Thomas card that was altered by just removing some black ink. PSA has put many altered/counterfeit cards in slabs. Getting something by them is really not that hard. They are better than nothing but far from perfect. EDIT: To ask, Arthur who are those people you watched reback cards? Last edited by bnorth; 11-22-2018 at 07:29 AM. |
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If anyone can pull off something like that then please post some pictures. |
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All of those cards were cracked out of PSA slabs. Arthur
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That sounds entirely plausible. We probably didn't pull sheets for QC as often as that, but we also weren't doing the sort of production Topps was - especially in 1990. Especially when I was on the press, although I did get almost up to speed with the regular guys. ![]() What's especially good to know is that Topps was still using sheet fed presses, rather than web fed. (If the web press had a cutting station they still could pull sheets, so it's not 100% ) I'd be a bit surprised if Topps sent anything to the Baler in 1990. 87 through 91 there's so much out there for misprints. One Ebay dealer had a 5000 ct box of blank front/back cards, all from the same year. |
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