1958 Topps Hank Aaron - BLUE background??

[Exhibitman]

Here's the basic problem with these: if you can manufacture one with sunlight and time, which I have seen people actually do with other green cards from the set, then there is no way to know whether you are buying a faded card or a print freak. It kills the marketability of the card IMO.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Here's the basic problem with these: if you can manufacture one with sunlight and time, which I have seen people actually do with other green cards from the set, then there is no way to know whether you are buying a faded card or a print freak. It kills the marketability of the card IMO.

In hand it is really easy to tell if they are a print freak or faded. Even with most pictures it is very easy to tell the difference.

[Cliff Bowman]

Here's a "blue" 1959 Topps Ernie Banks that recently showed up on eBay for a tidy sum. It's obviously a card that sat in a glass display case at a sports card store exposed to sunlight. The green area is where the price tag was that sheltered that small area from sunlight.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Here's a "blue" 1959 Topps Ernie Banks that recently showed up on eBay for a tidy sum. It's obviously a card that sat in a glass display case at a sports card store exposed to sunlight. The green area is where the price tag was that sheltered that small area from sunlight.

If not for the price sticker leaving the green(yellow ink) it probably would have sold for much more.

I disappoint people on their rare missing ink cards all the time. Bad part is most think their card is the only real one and the rest are altered.

[ALR-bishop]

"It's not easy staying green"... Kermit

"I see fields of blue..."..... L Armstrong

[Peter_Spaeth]

Green, green
It's green they say
On the far side of the hill

[ALR-bishop]

....I'm going away to where the grass is bluer still