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

bnorth · #1 01-13-2025, 02:13 PM

Picked up this one the end of last month. Not very rare but a cool variation with the yellow and red stripes down the edge.

ALR-bishop · #2 01-13-2025, 04:09 PM

It is recurring

bnorth · #3 01-13-2025, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

It is recurring

If I remember correctly it is a double print and one of the cards is on the left side of the sheet. Then when miscut enough the lines show up on those cards.

G1911 · #4 01-16-2025, 08:16 PM

1955 Topps Duane Pillette #168. Duane comes with or without the peachy colored block in the left border. The block is less common, but not difficult.

ALR-bishop · #5 01-17-2025, 11:03 AM

Good one Greg, but ironically after checking my set I need to normal one

G1911 · #6 01-19-2025, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Good one Greg, but ironically after checking my set I need to normal one

You and me both, I found it by noticing my copy had a weird mark. I love when this happens with a cheap common!

1955 has been my set of the week, trying to clean up my personal checklist for it. Such a great design. The two stocks (white vs. cream, and the cream is coarser to the touch. Difficult to tell apart in scans, but much easier in hand) for the first series/sheet cards really complicate the 'known' variations/RPD's/whatever-people-want-to-call-them. My copy of #2 Ted Williams that I've had for a long time is thankfully the no dots in signature variation, with a white back. Does anyone have this variation with the cream stock? I'm not certain all the variations affect both stocks, and pedantically cataloguing them might provide production clues as to whether they were done simultaneously or if they represent 2 distinct print runs of the first 'series'.

Carey, Sullivan, Terwilliger, Conley, Grim, Jackie, Moon et al. I'm also working on.

G1911 · #7 01-19-2025, 02:40 PM

Here's another example of what I mean. #67 Wally Moon comes with a red dot above his first name in the signature, or no dot, which is long known. Are there 3 or 4 copies to collect though? Here I have the :

Red dot, cream stock
No dot, cream stock
No dot, white stock

Does a red dot, white stock exist?

I hope the stock difference comes through the Net54 photo limitations. 1955 is not one of the easiest stock differences to tell but there are two of the for the first series cards, usually not too hard to tell in hand and they feel different too. Difficult, oft impossible to tell from scans and eBay listings where the appearance of difference often comes from scanner settings, making it difficult for me to be positive a card is one stock or the other without getting it in hand. A number of the other defects/differences in the first series 1955's are genuine variations, cropping differences, changes to the signatures, etc.

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