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

[G1911]

Noticed a mark on my 57 Boyer while playing with my set, the first image with the curley blue shape. I went to see if it was recurring or maybe an after-production mark or damage, and saw 2 other different blue shapes on COMC. Looks like there are at least 4 Boyer cards:

Blue curley shape
Big blue dot
2 very small blue dots
Proper full white border (not pictured)

There may be more.

[G1911]

Also, Hobie Landrith #182 comes with or without blue smearing in the upper right corner of the picture. Blue smear shown.

I apologize if I've posted about this already, I don't think I've heard of it from anyone else but it's tough to keep track to recall them all!

[G1911]

This Grote with a big pink splotch in the bottom banner is recurring, but a pretty tough one to find.

[ALR-bishop]

Is the line on Landrith a mark or a crease ?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Is the line on Landrith a mark or a crease ?

A mark, I think. I’m not a printing expert but tons of the 1957 cards have these vertical black marks, that I presume were left by the machines printing them. Personally, I’ve considered them akin to a card being off-center or miscut, damage during production and not a variant.

[G1911]

1963 #522 with Gary Peters can be found with this mark in the lower right, from the sheet. It's not too uncommon, but most have less of the mark visible than this one that is worse cut.

[G1911]

1972 #581 - red mark in upper border. This one is super easy, it's on like 50% of the cards or so.

[frankhardy]

Originally Posted by G1911

Noticed a mark on my 57 Boyer while playing with my set, the first image with the curley blue shape. I went to see if it was recurring or maybe an after-production mark or damage, and saw 2 other different blue shapes on COMC. Looks like there are at least 4 Boyer cards:

Blue curley shape
Big blue dot
2 very small blue dots
Proper full white border (not pictured)

There may be more.

Stop it would ya?!?!

You must be on a mission to bring to light every Cardinals print variation that I don't have in order to put a damper on my day!

I hate you! (in a light-hearted, hobby sort of way!)

[G1911]

Originally Posted by frankhardy

Stop it would ya?!?!

You must be on a mission to bring to light every Cardinals print variation that I don't have in order to put a damper on my day!

I hate you! (in a light-hearted, hobby sort of way!)

Ruining things for people is my special talent!

[JollyElm]

I posted this bizarre one in the pickups thread, but Joe feels more at home here...

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[G1911]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I posted this bizarre one in the pickups thread, but Joe feels more at home here...

If we're sharing miscut Namath's....

[G1911]

649T

1) Dot next to "To", dot above "3" in "3rd Base" and Curley mark in banner (Shown)

2) Dot above "3" in "3rd base"

3) No dots, no Curley mark

I believe the dot next to To is always paired with the Curley mark in banner.

[G1911]

Hard to capture in a pic, but 1974 Topps #433 Lerrin LeGrow has a blue spot next to his hip on the right side of the card in the grass, or no light blue spot.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by G1911

Noticed a mark on my 57 Boyer while playing with my set, the first image with the curley blue shape. I went to see if it was recurring or maybe an after-production mark or damage, and saw 2 other different blue shapes on COMC. Looks like there are at least 4 Boyer cards:

Blue curley shape
Big blue dot
2 very small blue dots
Proper full white border (not pictured)

There may be more.

Found another one, the one on top here with a blue scribble mark in the same spot. There's at least 5 distinct versions of Boyer's card, possibly more.

[Harliduck]

I have no idea if this card has been mentioned on this thread...if so, I apologize. It's quite the long thread now...


Thumbing through my 63 Topps set I noticed my #68 Friendly Foes had a large yellow ink blob...so I looked through ebay and other sites and pored through a bunch of cards and did find ONE other with the same blob...kinda cool to see a matching card. So I assume there are others out there.

Here is my card -



Here is the card I found on ebay with the same ink markings...




Cool card regardless...thought I'd share...

[G1911]

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[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

I have no idea if this card has been mentioned on this thread...if so, I apologize. It's quite the long thread now...


Thumbing through my 63 Topps set I noticed my #68 Friendly Foes had a large yellow ink blob...so I looked through ebay and other sites and pored through a bunch of cards and did find ONE other with the same blob...kinda cool to see a matching card. So I assume there are others out there.

Here is my card -



Here is the card I found on ebay with the same ink markings...




Cool card regardless...thought I'd share...

Nice find John, haven't seen that one before, thank you for sharing.

[ALR-bishop]

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[Harliduck]

Thanks Larry and great cards Greg. They were pretty sloppy with the yellow ink there!

Al...did you already know about this one? Cool to see another example...

[ALR-bishop]

I looked to see what I had after your post. No recall when I picked it up