1967 minnie rojas variations

[brob28]

I did not read Al's link. But I think the story goes that Topps was expecting a lot of demand for the cards and outsourced some printing to meet expected demand to a second company that was not a regular source. The GT's originate from that source. Keith, I'm 99% certain that there is cropping differences on all GT's - on a few though it's very tough to spot.

[ALR-bishop]

I think the source of what Bill has heard is the link. And as far as I know,there are cropping differences on each same pose green tint. Darren is the expert on that. I think it has been reported that PSA has been reluctant to to note the green tints on slabs because if you are looking at just one card at a time they can be hard to differentiate at times. I think that is true . If they had Darren's comparison scans, it would be easy. Bartsch has reported in SCD recently that they will be running an article on the green tints, maybe that will help. Hope Darren has had some input on it.

[con40]

Bill, if there were two distinct print runs with two sets of film stripped then most likely there would be some variation for every green tint card since stripping cannot be done identically due to the nature of handwork involved.

So, to revise my initial post on where these fit in the scheme of variations and anomalies, perhaps they should all be classified as true variations, though with the slightest of differences in some cases.

Thanks for the link Al, that was an interesting article, though it didn;t quite close the case on where the green tints originated.

Originally Posted by brob28

I did not read Al's link. But I think the story goes that Topps was expecting a lot of demand for the cards and outsourced some printing to meet expected demand to a second company that was not a regular source. The GT's originate from that source. Keith, I'm 99% certain that there is cropping differences on all GT's - on a few though it's very tough to spot.

[ALR-bishop]

Agreed Keith; stuff about the history of Topps is hardly ever clear cut

It is too bad Minnie Rojas died several years ago. He might have been amused by this thread "about him"

Apologies to the OP for the sidetrack, but after all you started it