Show me your print variations!

[G1911]

1966 Topps Gary Cutsinger #52 comes with or without this frame gap around the team logo on back. The cream back comes both ways; I haven't seen it on a white back yet but I haven't looked hard.

[G1911]

And this one is a true variation that I believe has never been mentioned online. Galen Fiss 1963 Topps card #21 had a cut above his eye removed.

His Purple sky card can be found with the cut above his eye present, and the bruising beneath his eye more severe.

The Purple sky card was then adjusted to reduce the bruising and remove the cut above his eye.

The regular version of the card with a proper, blue sky has the cut removed and the bruising beneath reduced further.

The version with the full cut is, I think at this point, pretty difficult.

[G1911]

Hall of Famer Tommy Nobis, #151, comes with and without this red dash beneath his position. Neither is difficult.

[G1911]

Heck, he ain't looking to good...

[G1911]

This one is recurring, but pretty darn rare. Note the big blue cloud everywhere. 1960 Fleer print defects are almost cheating, though. This set was not printed well for some reason, even though Fleer's other card offerings of 1959 and 1960 were just fine. You don't see big problems all the time in the 1959 and 1960 baseballs, for example.

[sb1]

One from a lot in my upcoming Sept auction

[G1911]

Tommy Nobis comes the same way as the Sayers. I found a couple more Sayers on eBay that are listed. It can't be the whole sheet available this way or more would be evident; it looks like it strikes Sayers about as often as it does Nobis. I wonder where they were placed on the sheet.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by G1911

Hall of Famer Tommy Nobis, #151, comes with and without this red dash beneath his position. Neither is difficult.

A 1968 Topps #151 Tommy Nobis with the red dash variant, and a big red issue, all over his shoulder, and over the rights side of his face and his chin. Not sure if recurring yet, pretty much any Topps card can eventually be found with some kind of red or yellow ink 'explosion'.

[G1911]

1951 Bowman Crazy Legs Hirsch with the back blue ink doublestruck, but not the red

[G1911]

1965 Topps Bob Schmidt #20. Unlike most Topps cards with these cut/splice/whatever lines, this one has it on front and back.

[G1911]

1948 Leaf #78 Clarence Self, with sheet marks in the top left is recurring.

[jp1216]

I've seen a few of these 'Blue Box/White Letters' Ernie Davis RCs. A couple are on eBay right now. Looks like a print defect - missing yellow ink? I tried looking for other Green Box/Yellow letter players but couldn't find any examples.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by G1911

And this one is a true variation that I believe has never been mentioned online. Galen Fiss 1963 Topps card #21 had a cut above his eye removed.

His Purple sky card can be found with the cut above his eye present, and the bruising beneath his eye more severe.

The Purple sky card was then adjusted to reduce the bruising and remove the cut above his eye.

The regular version of the card with a proper, blue sky has the cut removed and the bruising beneath reduced further.

The version with the full cut is, I think at this point, pretty difficult.

So there's at least 4 versions of this card, actually. There's another purple sky version that has even more of the cutting and bruising on his face. It really doesn't appear to be stray ink when looked at under magnification.

I don't think this is a print variation so much as a true variation.

[G1911]

1968 Topps 171 Len Dawson comes with or without this black line in the right border. Even on cards off center this way, it seems to be on less than half the cards.

Dawson often comes with this flared lower right (probably a right edge card on the sheet). The copy I have in hand looks the same.

[jthorst75]

Looks more like a Warhol than a football card.

[jefferyepayne]

How ironic is it for the Galloping Ghost to ... have a ghost?





jeff

[G1911]

Dick Nolan with an awful lot of smearing.