Show...me...your print variations!

[savedfrommyspokes]

I have not seen the two white lines that cross the "I", "N" and top left corner of the "D" in the team's name previously discussed. Out of about 120 copies between ebay and COMC, I found 4 copies which have the white lines across the team name.

[tedzan]

Not exactly variations....but, color printing errors. Campy missing Orange ink, and High #'s Doby, Sisler and Snider missing Yellow ink.





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[ALR-bishop]

Ted--In 1982 Topps had it’s Blackless and apparently in 1949 Bowman had it's Yellowless

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Ted--In 1982 Topps had it’s Blackless and apparently in 1949 Bowman had it's Yellowless

Hey Al

The color printing errors of the early Bowman's are all over the place. Here are some more examples.





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[tedzan]

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[savedfrommyspokes]

While there are other print variations noted for this card, I had not seen the recurring white spot above the "O" in Johnny before today. The white spot's size does vary from card to card also.

[ALR-bishop]

what are the other Lewis variants for 67 ?

[Exhibitman]

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

[ALR-bishop]

You could collect hobby recognized variations, recurring print defects, one time print defects, out of registrations, wrong backs ( or fronts ), blank backs, proofs, miscuts , or just some of the above. Sometime back I chose to stick to recognized variations and recurring print defects on the theory there has to be some limits

I still wonder if one searched long enough you could find a variant for any pre 1981 post war card ( The only pre war set I collect also has a variation for each card in the set)

[steve B]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

You could collect hobby recognized variations, recurring print defects, one time print defects, out of registrations, wrong backs ( or fronts ), blank backs, proofs, miscuts , or just some of the above. Sometime back I chose to stick to recognized variations and recurring print defects on the theory there has to be some limits

I still wonder if one searched long enough you could find a variant for any pre 1981 post war card ( The only pre war set I collect also has a variation for each card in the set)

I'm almost certain that would be possible. Post 1981, say through at least 1991 it's almost guaranteed. Haven't found all of them yet, but have found differences that should affect the entire set.

Some of them of course are really trivial, or only visible with a magnifier.

Steve B

[Robs70sCards]

I feel sorry for Topps employees working in the print shop in this era. In what other occupation are your screw ups, mess ups and inattentiveness this well documented? :-D

[swarmee]

Yeah, but you don't know who any of them were, unless you could identify them by the fingerprint on the 1972 card earlier in the thread. ;-)

[ALR-bishop]

Would be great to run that fingerprint through the NSA database and see who shows up,

There is Topps set that pictures a bunch of it's staff and workers...from the 70s I think

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

There is even less demand for those wuth the error on the back:





Mike

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

I love drastic miscuts and if I found a Yount cut that bad in a junk box it would have made my day.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by JustinD

I love drastic miscuts and if I found a Yount cut that bad in a junk box it would have made my day.

..this is a 1954 Topps Brooklyn Dodgers hurling ace Clem Labine ; despite being off-centered and with a 'drastic' diamond miscut , there is a distinct red-orange added color to the left side of the bottom where the white border should be. The surface is mint 9. Despite all its problems it still was graded ''Excellent : SGC 60". I've heard that there are people who actually look for and collect cards like this .

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[ALR-bishop]

Good one Mike. It is scarce but seems to be recurring. Found a couple on ebay with same defect

[JollyElm]

There is already one variation regarding 1972 card #619 Rich McKinney, where a small vertical blue line crosses the top right border, but there's also another one.

If you look at the orangey area between the 'Y' and 'A' in "YANKEES,' there is an errant blotch of yellow appearing there on a good number of these cards. And it's coupled with a yellow 'teardrop' which seemingly emanates from his right eye.

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[ALR-bishop]

Knew I had the blue bar version so assumed I needed the blotch/tear version, but turned out that was my "regular" card. So now I need a normal card

It is interesting how many cards there are in this thread with more than one recurring print oddity on different cards