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

[bocca001]

I've been looking for this Kaline Band Aid card on and off for a few years since learning about it on Net54. It showed up on ebay a few days ago for a really good price. Excited to get it.

I don't remember hearing about this card back in the day (collecting in the 1970s/1980s), when it seemed like there was lots of attention on error cards. Was this card well-known/collected for years? Or did it only more recently get attention?

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by bocca001

I've been looking for this Kaline Band Aid card on and off for a few years since learning about it on Net54. It showed up on ebay a few days ago for a really good price. Excited to get it.

Beautiful card which looks great for the listed grade. Can't believe it didn't at least get the half grade bump for solid centering.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by bocca001

I've been looking for this Kaline Band Aid card on and off for a few years since learning about it on Net54. It showed up on ebay a few days ago for a really good price. Excited to get it.

I don't remember hearing about this card back in the day (collecting in the 1970s/1980s), when it seemed like there was lots of attention on error cards. Was this card well-known/collected for years? Or did it only more recently get attention?

Like many variations the first I heard about it was from an eBay seller, on this one I'm guessing 7-10 years ago. I saw his listing and was skeptical until I saw the scan and was instantly convinced it was a legit variation. Hopefully Darren (JollyElm) can recall when and how he found out about the 73 Topps Kaline Band-Aid variation.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Like many variations the first I heard about it was from an eBay seller, on this one I'm guessing 7-10 years ago. I saw his listing and was skeptical until I saw the scan and was instantly convinced it was a legit variation. Hopefully Darren (JollyElm) can recall when and how he found out about the 73 Topps Kaline Band-Aid variation.

As a variation nut, I actually 'discovered' this one on my own a long time ago, sometime in the earlier 90's IIRC? Never heard of it (and I'm sure someone out there before me can claim the actual discovery as their own), but found/noticed one (among multiple Kalines) inside the huge box of 1973's my brothers and I had amassed, and I've been looking for them ever since. Sold a couple at healthy prices, and interest seems to be skyrocketing.

I will point out this card is cursed!! Seemingly every time I put one of mine out there for trade or sale, some sc_mbag comes out of woodwork trying to take it off of my hands for nothing. All they see are dollar signs and nothing else matters. They usually take the exact same approach, from pretending their interest is tepid by saying they 'might' be interested in the card, to pretending it's not worth anything by saying, "You know, elm, you and I are probably the only ones who collect this guy," to offering me nothing but crap for it, to spewing out the hatred when I don't fall for their obvious BS. It's like they're reading from the same script. They want the card and it doesn't matter one bit that I don't want (can't use, etc.) what they insist I take for it. I just laugh and think, "What the hell is wrong with these people??!!" Sorry for the rant, but this card is just a grief maker!! Whenever I get a PM with the subject line being "1973 Kaline," I just think, "Crap, here we go again!!"

Hopefully, your results will vary.

[bocca001]

Thanks, guys. The card is much nicer that I had expected to find and will hang out on a shelf with my other favorite error/variation (1989 Fleer Randy Johnson(s)). I'm also pennant collector and I do collect pennant errors/variations. Hopefully I don't taint this card thread by posting one pennant here.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

As a variation nut, I actually 'discovered' this one on my own a long time ago, sometime in the earlier 90's IIRC? Never heard of it (and I'm sure someone out there before me can claim the actual discovery as their own), but found/noticed one (among multiple Kalines) inside the huge box of 1973's my brothers and I had amassed, and I've been looking for them ever since. Sold a couple at healthy prices, and interest seems to be skyrocketing.

I will point out this card is cursed!! Seemingly every time I put one of mine out there for trade or sale, some sc_mbag comes out of woodwork trying to take it off of my hands for nothing. All they see are dollar signs and nothing else matters. They usually take the exact same approach, from pretending their interest is tepid by saying they 'might' be interested in the card, to pretending it's not worth anything by saying, "You know, elm, you and I are probably the only ones who collect this guy," to offering me nothing but crap for it, to spewing out the hatred when I don't fall for their obvious BS. It's like they're reading from the same script. They want the card and it doesn't matter one bit that I don't want (can't use, etc.) what they insist I take for it. I just laugh and think, "What the hell is wrong with these people??!!" Sorry for the rant, but this card is just a grief maker!! Whenever I get a PM with the subject line being "1973 Kaline," I just think, "Crap, here we go again!!"

Hopefully, your results will vary.

I know exactly how you feel...I posted a 69 567 no black outline card one time and got the same type of ridiculous messages in regards to it. Heard some great stories though...entertaining even.

[GasHouseGang]

I don't know if this has been reported, but I noticed this variation on the 1955 Elmer Valo. At the bottom of the front the red box corner, lower right is clipped off in the variation. On the back of the variation his batting average doesn't have a decimal point (.280) but is shown as 280.

[Cliff Bowman]

Unless they are already known, it’s incredible that either one of those on the 55 Valo went undiscovered for 66 years. They’re both new to me.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Unless they are already known, it’s incredible that either one of those on the 55 Valo went undiscovered for 66 years. They’re both new to me.

I'm surprised too. I looked it up on the list of variations and didn't see it. I also checked on Ebay and saw both versions for sale. So it appears to be a real variation.

[Sliphorn]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I don't know if this has been reported, but I noticed this variation on the 1955 Elmer Valo. At the bottom of the front the red box corner, lower right is clipped off in the variation. On the back of the variation his batting average doesn't have a decimal point (.280) but is shown as 280.

Notice on the reverse of each card that the red is to the right on the variation with the clipped corner.

[ALR-bishop]

This is a good one, and not hard to find

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by bocca001

I've been looking for this Kaline Band Aid card on and off for a few years since learning about it on Net54. It showed up on ebay a few days ago for a really good price. Excited to get it.

I don't remember hearing about this card back in the day (collecting in the 1970s/1980s), when it seemed like there was lots of attention on error cards. Was this card well-known/collected for years? Or did it only more recently get attention?

Very nice card. Most are way off center.