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

[Tedwilliams1918]

Question for big AL you have everything else even the 1958 mantles I love….do you have this crazy 1969 rookies???? This one just sold for 13,500 and a raw one in my fb group did $9500 I was told

[G1911]

1954 Topps #234 Jerry Lynch - assists and errors for 1953 partially obscured. Noticed it while playing with my 54 set this morning. I checked COMC and 1 out of the 16 Lynch's they have listed has this defect, so it is recurring and probably less common than the correct copy.

[Tedwilliams1918]

Too bad it’s not completely gone or I’d be buying one! Phil rizzuto has one like that too

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Tedwilliams1918

Too bad it’s not completely gone or I’d be buying one! Phil rizzuto has one like that too

The more that's missing, the better. Thank you, I did not know there was a Rizzuto one too. Another card to track down

[G1911]

The Rizzuto Teddy Ballgame brought up - lifetime triples partially obscured.

12 out of 17 on COMC right now have it obscured, so looks like this one won't be hard to add to my set and might be more common than the properly printed version. Maybe I'm just behind the curve on this one

[ALR-bishop]

Was aware of Rizzuto and have one. Pretty pretty sure it showed here earlier. Maybe Thomas/sliphorn ?

Did not know about Lynch

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Tedwilliams1918

Question for big AL you have everything else even the 1958 mantles I love….do you have this crazy 1969 rookies???? This one just sold for 13,500 and a raw one in my fb group did $9500 I was told

Of course he does , post #319 on page 7 of this thread.

[G1911]

While checking which Rizzuto I have (I'm sure I've missed or don't recall posts among the 2,800+), I remembered the Jackie defects I don't think have been mentioned before.

There are multiple recurring minor defects on the back of 1954 Topps #10 Jackie Robinson. My copy here has a white triangle next to his 12 home runs, a white slash next to P.O., and the F. Avg. label is partially obscured.

Here's one from COMC, with with the P of P.O. partially obscured, and the F. Avg. incomplete. Notice his 136 games is also partially obscured.

Third, a copy from COMC with the F. Avg. complete to show it's not all cards that come this way.

There are at minimum several different total combinations of recurring defects, some easy and some rare-very rare.

Defects are a lot more fun on cheap commons

[G1911]

A second star card recurring defect I don't recall hearing anyone else talk about somewhere is on Ed Mathews. White blob across from mini-B&W Mathews arm, crossing into the blue backdrop from the border. This defect is significantly less common than the correct copy, but I don't recall it being super rare.

If I know about a defect in advance on a star card, I usually try to pick it up for my set and just skip the correct copy. Having all the defects is super fun when it costs me $1.25 for Jerry Lynch, it's not super fun when its $20 for Mathews or $150 or whatever it is these days for a Jackie

EDIT TO TAG PROPERLY FOR SEARCH FUNCTIONS: 1954 Topps #30 Ed Eddie Mathews

[ALR-bishop]

Darren used to have one of the 69 Pirates Rookies for trade in his BST thread

[ALR-bishop]

Fo me the most interesting , and expensive variation for 54 was the white arm band on Mays. It is so plentiful I wonder if it was DP like the 52 Mantle, Robinson and Thompson

[philliesfan]

Another red bleed covering names.
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1969 AL Rookie Stars .jpg