Who spilled blue ink all over my 1976 high numbers?

[Cliff Bowman]

It's been a loooooong time since I found one of these, mainly because I haven't looked, but a Joe Decker popped up. There should be similar examples of J R Richard and Fernando Arroyo because of their placement on the sheet but I haven't been able to find either one.

[G1911]

These are great, the kind of odd defects I love to see.

[Harliduck]

Wow, glad these are posted...about a dozen years ago I bought a complete mint set on ebay that was advertised as coalated from vender lots. I was super impressed with the condition...set is outstanding....except the nasty blue ink on the back half! Some are insane...ive been meaning to ask here and was going to post some pics. Just cool to see there is an actual story...my plan was to replace them...

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Wow, glad these are posted...about a dozen years ago I bought a complete mint set on ebay that was advertised as coalated from vender lots. I was super impressed with the condition...set is outstanding....except the nasty blue ink on the back half! Some are insane...ive been meaning to ask here and was going to post some pics. Just cool to see there is an actual story...my plan was to replace them...

I would be glad to take the ones I need and severe ones like Knowles and Oglivie off of your hands.

[Harliduck]

I have a bunch, and several that are severe. I also have JR and Decker...here are those -







If your willing to send me back "normal" untainted cards I will trade you straight up. Send me a list of what your looking for, I'd be glad to exchange. I'm not a big "print" defect collector so all good here. I'm the idiot that would exchange a 90 Frank Thomas no name for a regular one...haha...

[Harliduck]

My Fernando Arroyo is actually clean...only he and Tom Hall on that page are clean, rest have blue dots with Darold Knowles so bad its almost all blue...lol

[Harliduck]

Here are the cards I have with blue ink, some light but noticeable and there, some pretty thick...and * denotes extreme...hope this list helps.

17 (Edit) Yankees Team
555 Dyar Miller
559 Clyde Wright
569 Nelson Briles
571 Don Demola
573 Bill Taveres
580 Bert Campaneris *
581 Cardinals Team
589 Rookies (all the RC's are light, but there)
590 Rookies
592 Rookies (Randolph)
594 Rookies
596 Rookies
597 Rookies
603 Jim Holt
604 Joe Lovito
605 Al Downing
609 Fred Norman *
610 Greg Luzinski
613 Tim Johnson
615 Mike Cubbage
616 Buck Martinez*
617 Darold Knowles*
618 Jack Brohamer
619 Bill Butler
620 Al Oliver
622 Rick Auerbach
623 Bob Allietta
624 Tony Taylor
625 JR Richard
626 Bob Sheldon
628 John D'Aquiston*
630 Chris Speier
636 Joe Decker
637 Bruce Bochte
638 Doyle Alexander
639 Fred Kendall
640 Bill Madlock
642 Dennis Blair
645 Darrell Porter*
649 Dave Roberts
650 Thurman Munson
651 John Odom
652 Ed Armbrister
655 Mike Vail*
656 White Sox
657 Roy Smalley
659 Ben Oglivie*
660 Dave Lopes

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

It's been a loooooong time since I found one of these, mainly because I haven't looked, but a Joe Decker popped up. There should be similar examples of J R Richard and Fernando Arroyo because of their placement on the sheet but I haven't been able to find either one.

Those are cool looking cards. I bought a few cases of 1989 Topps DoubleHeaders and about half the Mark McGwires had red spots like that on the Rookie side. Strangely it was the only card that had the spots.

[JollyElm]

Just saw this one (literally one, as in #1) newly listed on eBay (not mine)...

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[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Just saw this one (literally one, as in #1) newly listed on eBay (not mine)...

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Thank you! That is one of the more difficult ones to find. I finally found a nice Fernando Arroyo.

[Harliduck]

Nice Fernando Cliff!! I was bummed I didn't have that one...

Just noticed that the blue dots extend down to his name...crazy