Amazing 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken find

[bnorth]

Just got this bad boy in the mail today. It is pretty much the rarest of the rare. From all the top 89 Fleer Bill Ripken collectors it is considered the 3rd to 5th at the most known example of this version. It is known as the CS3 or Circle Scribble 3 version. I am beyond happy to have it.

[butchie_t]

Congrats Ben!

Billy will be famous forever, but not for his field and batting prowess. My wife got me a signed FF very many years ago. That is as far as I went chasing the many variations.

Cheers,

Butch

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Congrats Ben!

Billy will be famous forever, but not for his field and batting prowess. My wife got me a signed FF very many years ago. That is as far as I went chasing the many variations.

Cheers,

Butch

Cool, post a pic of it. Did he do his best to cover up the FF? I know he did that on several. I have a P4 Diamond Willy Dipken he personalized to me.

[butchie_t]

I will do that but it will be a couple of months before I can get to it. We are packing to move and a great deal of my 'stuff' is boxed!

I'll be sure to get you a picture later this year.

Cheers,

Butch

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

I will do that but it will be a couple of months before I can get to it. We are packing to move and a great deal of my 'stuff' is boxed!

I'll be sure to get you a picture later this year.

Cheers,

Butch

Hope you have a easy smooth move.

Here is my only Bill Ripken auto. I can't remember what awesome forum member went out of their way and got this for me but I really appreciated it.

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Cool, post a pic of it. Did he do his best to cover up the FF? I know he did that on several. I have a P4 Diamond Willy Dipken he personalized to me.

Ben,

I am unpacking things and came across the signed 89F Billy Ripken.
He did not quite cover up the bat handle but did come close.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Ben,

I am unpacking things and came across the signed 89F Billy Ripken.
He did not quite cover up the bat handle but did come close.

Very cool, thanks for posting it.

Weirdly Billy did a signing recently and signed the FF version for the low price of $75 each. Usually he won't sign it.

[jacksoncoupage]

http://1989fleerripken.blogspot.com/...vered.html?m=1

Im only seeing this now. Seems like a huge development for this card.

Forgive me if this collector is a regular here and Im late to the party.

[dealme]

Great pickup. I was 10 years old at the time of its release, and I still get a kick out of this card and the multiple variations 33 years after the fact.


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[jp1216]

Great card Ben. Good luck with your sale.

Most "Circle Scribbles" have the factory sawcuts. To find one without the cut is Rare!

[JustinD]

Congrats!

[Zach Wheat]

Congrats Ben, I know how happy you must be

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Congrats Ben, I know how happy you must be

Extremely happy. More happy to have found a new to the hobby example and to own and hopefully soon to have owned it. I have owned most of the big cards in the hobby but I am a high end card renter. I own them for a while and sell them to own another big card.

Card renting lets me own/have owned some amazing cards over the last 35 or so years with little to no out of pocket expense.

[Statfreak101]

Recently picked a CS3 SC up to add to the collection.

I will add photos soon, but absolutely stoked to get this in the collection.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Statfreak101

Recently picked a CS3 SC up to add to the collection.

I will add photos soon, but absolutely stoked to get this in the collection.

Nice, post a pic for sure. I think I started a thread when I found my SC3 SC a few years ago.

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Just got this bad boy in the mail today. It is pretty much the rarest of the rare. From all the top 89 Fleer Bill Ripken collectors it is considered the 3rd to 5th at the most known example of this version. It is known as the CS3 or Circle Scribble 3 version. I am beyond happy to have it.

I checked out on these years ago but this is a really cool card and one I was unfamiliar with prior to this post.

On the topic of scribble versions, I am familiar with the F, F-loop, No F and now this but are there more variants to the scribble itself? I seem to recall an almost legible F FACE visible through the black cover or am I making this up?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

I checked out on these years ago but this is a really cool card and one I was unfamiliar with prior to this post.

On the topic of scribble versions, I am familiar with the F, F-loop, No F and now this but are there more variants to the scribble itself? I seem to recall an almost legible F FACE visible through the black cover or am I making this up?

Jon a fellow member has a website dedicated to the different versions. www.billripken.com There are 4 different Circle Scribbles. The website has great pics of them. I have never owned a CS4 version regular or sawcut.

There is a very weird only know scribble version I found several years ago. It is also pictured on the site as Jon owns it now. There is also a white scribble version that is way more rare than the 3 scribbles you are familiar with but nothing like the super rare circle scribble cards.

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Jon a fellow member has a website dedicated to the different versions. www.billripken.com There are 4 different Circle Scribbles. The website has great pics of them. I have never owned a CS4 version regular or sawcut.

There is a very weird only know scribble version I found several years ago. It is also pictured on the site as Jon owns it now. There is also a white scribble version that is way more rare than the 3 scribbles you are familiar with but nothing like the super rare circle scribble cards.

I think the version Im recalling is one of the non-circular black scribble types (not sure on the No F, loop, closed loop) but the black cover-up is light enough to still read the writing. It was definitely not one of the circular scribble cards.

[jp1216]

Here is a decent grouping of the 4 "CS" varieties. Very Rare cards!

Circular pattern with different levels of coverage.

Probably an early FF correction by Fleer. Maybe after the White Scribble but before the regular basic Black Scribbles or Black Boxes.

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by jp1216

Here is a decent grouping of the 4 "CS" varieties. Very Rare cards!

Circular pattern with different levels of coverage.

Probably an early FF correction by Fleer. Maybe after the White Scribble but before the regular basic Black Scribbles or Black Boxes.

Jon,

Your site is really great. Im big on variations that went through many stages and I'd assume the 89 Ripken is the king of it.

The card I'm trying to recall would be a standard black scribble, not circular, and the black coverup is not as dark as the F*** FACE words. Does this ring any bells?

[Statfreak101]

Originally Posted by jp1216

Here is a decent grouping of the 4 "CS" varieties. Very Rare cards!

Circular pattern with different levels of coverage.

Probably an early FF correction by Fleer. Maybe after the White Scribble but before the regular basic Black Scribbles or Black Boxes.

Based on my findings and a few others, if this were the accurate timeline, this would have been a VERY QUICK & short duration correction attempt by Fleer.