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11-10-2009, 05:25 PM
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That card does not appear to be a Venezuela Topps card... the cardstock is too white, especially on the back. The Venezuelan cards have a distinctly beige cardstock. If you have the card in your possession and can examine it personally, it would also have a grainy, sandstone-like appearance of the stock on the back, and the front would be completely lacking gloss. I have little doubt it will not have those characteristics.
I suspect the card was on a salesman's sample 3-card panel and was cut off cleanly. The only place I can think of where green ink would have possibly been used on the reverse would have been a salesman's sample. There is not a single card in the entire 1966 set that has that color green ink on the reverse, however, salesman's samples were often printed with green ink. Last edited by a761506; 11-10-2009 at 05:33 PM. 
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11-10-2009, 05:35 PM
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Likely altered
Bob... I recall buying a group of mid 60s cards many years ago that were improperly stored & cared for.... garage or shed likely... A number of the cards had chemicals which had spilled on them and this cocktail resulted in strange color blotches on the reverse. In my case there was no premium attached, or suggested. They simply went into the offgrade bin and were sold very cheaply. Without knowing the circumstances surrounding this Mantle (provenance, did it turn up alone or in a group, assigned or misperceived value by seller, etc) I would hesitate at speculating what this could be until I could examine it in person
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11-11-2009, 08:42 AM
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Venezualens
Good input Josh, You ought to post a link to your web site. Great stuff
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11-11-2009, 04:33 PM
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Never thought of the salesman's strip . . .
That shouldn't be too impossible to check out. Anybody got one laying around?
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11-12-2009, 11:31 PM
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Like Mark M. brought up. Would it be possible for someone to purposely dab a chemical only on the card number and have the ink change color???
Everything else about the card is normal, even the 1964 line being misaligned. Very interesting 
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12-13-2009, 05:37 AM
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11-21-2017, 01:51 PM
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Remember, there are still folks alive who put '52 Topps Mantles in their bike spokes. HOLY CRAP!
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