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

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Here is a front back picture of the 1979 Topps Willie Randolph front with the 1978 wrongback of Rick Burleson with just a sliver of the #200 Reggie Jackson card.

There are always some of those on eBay, the 1979 cards with the badly off center 1978 backs. I read before that leftover 1978 printed backs were used as a practice run for the new 1979 fronts, and some of them escaped the dumpster and made their way into the hands of collectors. It's possible that Keith Olbermann talked about some of the 1979 Topps proof error cards in his three part series, but I was never able to find the third part where he talks about 1977 and up. Correction, it was a four part series and Olbermann only talks about 1977 in the last part.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

There are always some of those on eBay, the 1979 cards with the badly off center 1978 backs. I read before that leftover 1978 printed backs were used as a practice run for the new 1979 fronts, and some of them escaped the dumpster and made their way into the hands of collectors. It's possible that Keith Olbermann talked about some of the 1979 Topps proof error cards in his three part series, but I was never able to find the third part where he talks about 1977 and up. Correction, it was a four part series and Olbermann only talks about 1977 in the last part.

Yes eBay is where I got mine several years ago. Also got some 79 Topps blank fronts that are sheet(hand) cut at the same time.

I will have to look and see if I can find Olbermans 4 part series.

[steve B]

Yes, the 79 fronts with 78 backs were rescued by someone, I forget the dealer who ended up with them. I bought a strip of them at the time, arrived poorly packed and a bit creased since the box got a bit crushed in the mail. I still have it somewhere.

That was my second experience with mail order for collectibles, neither went all that well. They've been ok over time of course, but at the time it put me off mail order for a long time.

The 78 backs were also used for Bazooka boxes. They also used cardboard from Black Hole cards for bazooka boxes.

Steve B

[SMPEP]

Dumb question - you frequently see the 1978 Topps baseball cards with Mork & minday stickers on the back - my question for any in the know, did someone just peel the sticker off the original Mork & Mindy card and then stick it on a 1978 Topps card?

I'm not even sure how these could have been created at the factory ... because you use different paper for the baseball cards than was used for teh peel off stickers.

Always seemed like a scam (that many people bought) to me.

[steve B]

Nope, just more use of scrap by Topps. I have one, and it's the sticker front printed onto the baseball card stock. Probably from using the leftover baseball stuff to adjust the presses.

Steve B

[SMPEP]

So, the "sticker" isn't a sticket in this case (i.e. you can't peel it off). It's just a printed version of teh sticker on baseball card stock. Right?

[batsballsbases]

Had these 1967s for a very long time. Came out of a vending box. Fronts are not badly centered but the backs were all off. You can see where some of them go together. Funny I have 2 Jim Hicks cards and both are off one a little more than the other. The cards are like NRMT! You can see the start of the Dodgers team card next to Alou..

[shempdevil]

I haven't seen many of these, but does anyone know just how rare this variation is?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Topps-R...item1e9a2d6a6e

[JollyElm]

For 1962 Checklist #367, the variation has always seemingly been defined as 'light wood' versus 'dark wood.' Well, in looking at all of the checklists as part of my green tints research, I stumbled upon something. Namely, a much simpler way to differentiate the two variations…

1962367.jpg

a. The card on the left is the 'dark wood' variation. If you look in its upper left corner, you'll see that part of the white is completely missing. You can see it right away.

b. The card on the right is the 'light wood' variation. If you look at its bottom right corner, you'll see that a notch of the white is missing. This, too, is clearly visible.

So there you have it. A much easier way to spot the two different versions of this checklist.

[4reals]

Very keen observation on the 62 checklist Darren, great find!

[K-Nole]

Are these rare or pretty Common on the backs of 67 topps?