What's up with this end price?

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Posted By: Nick

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1983767739&category=31719

Is there a 4X premium on miscut soveriegn backs that I don't know about?

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Which doesn't mean IU'd pay a premium for it.

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Posted By: hankron

To collectors of T206 printing errors/variations, this is a desirable variation on the order of a ghost overprint or extreme color misalignment. I think some collectors find the printing process fascinating, and enjoy collecting these types of oddities.

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Posted By: Hankron

Also, the winner is a well known collector of T206 printing oddities, who has a number of fine ghost overprints.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Japanese card, which says "Chico Borbon" on the front (he went right from S. America to japan--never played here). But the picture is of Jackie Robinson, c. 1955,56. How ya like them apples?

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Posted By: Nick

Let me know if you are ever interested in a trade or selling the card.

Nick

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Posted By: Andy Baran

Julie,

Chico Bourbon is from Cuba, not South America.

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

Its hard to put a price on a card like this since very few exist and this is a very nice one.....plus if you notice,the 2 top bidders were almost $100 higher than anyone else....If anyone wants to pay half this much for a double piedmont back of Deacon Phillippe,i would probably sell it......this card below of HOF'er George Davis,is for display only tho




yes, it is printed upside down

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: T206Monsta

Hankron hit it right on the head. The buyer is well know for his interest in these types. Also, the runner-up is well known for his interest in T206 oddities. Both of these buyers are very good to deal with and yes, it's usually for some decent coin.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I definitely can see a premium for that type of T card. I've owned T206 ghosts and I have a couple of 1948 leaf blank backs and wrong backs (boxing). I've also got a few Topps cards with missing inking on the backs (only the crappy looking colored layer made it to the card, not the stats). They make nice additions to a set or collection.

It is interesting, though, that as the cards age and reach all but untouchable prices, our appreciation of the desirability of misprints and other process related errors goes up. This is nothing new. When I was a young whippersnapper collector I remember people paying premiums for errors on old sets, back around 1975. It fell out of vogue when the new card makers around 1981 started intentionally flubbing their cards (Fleer, especially) and creating those infamous crazes. I kind of like to see it coming back.