Show me your print variations!

[G1911]

A lot like the Butkus, Donny Anderson has a big yellow blob in the name box that is difficult to miss. It seems to vary heavily in size and exact shape, but all of them are really obvious.

As far as I have noticed, all Donny Anderson's have the small white jut into the black name box.

[Cliff Bowman]

It seems like there should be a Kuechenberg but I don't think I have ever seen one.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

It seems like there should be a Kuechenberg but I don't think I have ever seen one.

You know sheets much better than I - do you have any ideas on what these lines are? The 72 footballs, these you've found, the 73 Weaver strip from the baseball thread. These seem to be placed wrong to be cutting lines, as they are not where a properly centered card would be cut. I'm not sure why some minority of issued sheets would place lines like this where they are not 'hidden' in the issued product, in only some years.

[G1911]

Looks like there is this black mark on top of a yellow line on a lot of cards on this sheet. I can see it in the picture of the sheet you posted too:

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by G1911

You know sheets much better than I - do you have any ideas on what these lines are? The 72 footballs, these you've found, the 73 Weaver strip from the baseball thread. These seem to be placed wrong to be cutting lines, as they are not where a properly centered card would be cut. I'm not sure why some minority of issued sheets would place lines like this where they are not 'hidden' in the issued product, in only some years.

I don't think any of those particular stray errant lines served any purpose, I think it was just sloppiness on the part of Topps of not removing them before printing the sheets.

[G1911]

I haven't seen another one yet, but Suggs here is doused in yellow, over most of the background, the uniform and his person.

[G1911]

Hugh McElhenny comes with or without this green mark by his jersey number. The defect version is not difficult.

Topps really could have found a picture where his eyes aren't closed.

[jefferyepayne]

Lots of great print defects in this thread! Keep'em coming.

jeff

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

It seems like there should be a Kuechenberg but I don't think I have ever seen one.

There are 1983 Topps Bob Kuechenberg cards with the bizarre print line.

[G1911]

Pretty much all the 1962 Post's have this red ink problem as a frequent occurrence, with red spread in some quantity over pretty much the entire picture, creating a purple sky effect like the next years Topps cards.

[G1911]

Came across this one - Christman in the bottom row can be found this way with a little miscutting on 1 in 4 of his appearances on the Leaf sheet.

[G1911]

1954 Bowman #50 George Taliaferro has at least 3 versions. Deep, 'full' blue blob swirl in upper left, lighter partial blue blob swirl in upper left, and no blue swirly things.

None of the three are difficult and all are readily available. It is my experience that the full blob is the toughest, but I didn't look all that hard after getting each of them and I easily pulled scans off eBay for all of them.

[G1911]

1954 Bowman 49 and 97 both have known true variations, with the names spelled differently on the reverse. Finnin used to carry a big price gap in the Standard Catalogs and Chadnois/Chandnois wasn't listed.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by G1911

A lot like the Butkus, Donny Anderson has a big yellow blob in the name box that is difficult to miss. It seems to vary heavily in size and exact shape, but all of them are really obvious.

As far as I have noticed, all Donny Anderson's have the small white jut into the black name box.

Just updating, with 4 different patterns of the yellow. The card bottom left has another version of the same basic problem; a white area right above the defect zone, and the area that is sometimes found erroneously yellow like the 4 at right is pink, not red, unlike the rest of the name box.

[G1911]

Something is a little wrong with Hornung here. Not 100% certain this is an actual printing or production problem yet, but wild looking ones are my favorites.

Anyone have another Hornung like this?

[G1911]

This yellow splotch on Currie is recurring. There's another one on COMC right now.