Let's see your color oddities!

bnorth · #1 02-10-2023, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by G1911

Many of these cards had contact with glues and pastes along most or all of their backside. Some also cast an effect wider than the initial contact point, as I�ve seen in T cards I�ve yanked out of scrapbooks myself. There�s a reason we see the same effects recurring across issues that don�t make sense from a printing perspective.

There are two kinds of light fade we see, one being the extreme sun damage that you see on the spine of a book that�s been a shelf facing the sun for 40 years. Those cards are faded everywhere. Red ink is also extremely susceptible to fading from light, and takes effect long before any other color is affected. This thread from a couple months ago has cards with the telltale signs that this is exactly what happened shown and broken down: https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=328644

I love misprints and freaks and would love to believe. But the evidence all tells me these are not real. Debunking my own �misprints� ain�t in my interest, but these really should not be bought and sold as if they are real when they aren�t.

There are also nefarious ways to do this or speed up the process, some of which work quite reliably and a person with no background in chemicals and such can do.

90%+ of T and E cards sold as misprints did not leave the factory that way.

Here is the infamous 58 Topps Aaron card. It is amazing how many of these have sold over they years as rare error cards for big money. It is also amazing how many can be traced back to the same seller.
https://net54baseball.com/showthread...ght=blue+aaron

G1911 · #2 02-10-2023, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bnorth

Here is the infamous 58 Topps Aaron card. It is amazing how many of these have sold over they years as rare error cards for big money. It is also amazing how many can be traced back to the same seller.
https://net54baseball.com/showthread...ght=blue+aaron

It's much cheaper to buy a '58 Aaron that's green, and make it blue at home yourself.

Vintage Topps green to blue and tobacco red to orange are the biggest red flags that you are not looking at an actual misprint. I still think they look cool, and when I get one that I do not believe to be the work of a doctor but to have happened naturally, I slot it into my set as an extra bonus card.

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