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1969 Topps #214 Checklist: Has a large black and white blotch fisheye over Special.

Recurring? Only one that was for sale on COMC at the time. First 10 I looked at on eBay didn't have it.

I fear a sad day is upon us. Richard Dingman's Goggle site is no longer accessible. It worked yesterday evening, and today it is not there anymore.

At least I was able to scrape a fair amount of his collected data from that site before it went away.

Bummer.....

Butch

He is a member here, brightair, and I think still sells under that name on ebay. You might be able to contact him about other access to his lists

I do know that sir and have been in contact with him over the past number of months. He has helped me with my variation fix,,,,er collection for my sets.

Thanks Al.

B.T.

Most are familiar with the 1979 topps black border missing variations. Some have the entire top border missing, others just a partial. Here is a new one I found, at least it’s new to me. I have never seen one on this number before (#247).

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And it is repeatable too!

Nice find.

Not in hand yet, but I was searching 1967 Topps on eBay for 6th Series miscuts when I came across this 67 McNally with the recurring ink explosion on the sign on the right and couldn't pass it up.

Neat Cliff. Now tell us who Dave was next to :)

Got this 69 T Joe Shultz #254 variation today. Looking at the one on the right under a 10x loupe I can see where Topps actually covered this red/blue streak over. There is a very faint red blemish where the arrow is and it shows up better under the loupe. You can also see some distortion in the area of where the streak was covered up.

My guess is that the Revlon anti-blemish cream was not fully applied on Joe prior to distribution.

Ok. So I was going though my 1967 extras box and boy there is a lot of them….maybe set number 4? :) I was really putting the lid on the box for storage But anyway found 1967 topps 464 Dan coombs with white line slash above name (common Version?) and very light slash (looks like maybe a corrected version?)….and yes because of my 67 addiction I do have 6 extras

To me they all have an unprinted slash in the balck, but some have it filled in by the blue not being registered properly.

But, there's a more interesting thing.
In the second O of his name, there is or isn't a notch in the right side allowing the glove to show through,
And
The black line through the center of the O and between the O and M is or isn't heavier.

Somewhere there may be one without the slash altogether fixing that would have been very easy. It's just a matter of if they did it. That they didn't, while fixing the notch in the O makes me think it may have never been fixed.

Didn’t notice the yellow glow of the glove and some tips also his arm yellow glow too missing the black outline. So maybe print alignment ? But either way….more variations for people to chase lol ……:)

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Cliff that McNally is good!

I’ve seen quite a few variations of that card over the years, including different color inks


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1966 Topps 178 Bob Tillman
 

Don't know if this has been listed before but there is a small wedge above the team banner on some cards.

While it is not difficult to find. it is in shorter supply than the normal version.

Mike

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I have to get them when I find them. I have been looking for the 69 T Reynolds pink dot for a while now. Found one recently but it is autographed. I'll take it, another one off the 69 list.

Cheers,

B.T.

1974 Topps washouts #s 123T, 570, 596

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My 1977 Ellies. 1) Washout 2) rainbow 3) rainbow with line under c in catcher 4) murder scene

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1954 Topps - [Base] #25.1 - Harvey Kuenn (White Back)
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Cutout on the top green border near left edge. Recurring.

Good one John

I catalog the red smearing in my collection spreadsheets as “murder scene” variants too. Nice ones.

White lightening

Ha! That same lightning bolt passed through some 1970 Steve Renko cards.

I ran across this 1977 Topps Tippy Martinez missing a section of border on the back by the cartoon years ago, I haven't searched extensively but I have never found another one. ETA, looking at it more closely it’s probably just a fisheye that obstructed the border.

Mcnally is in C11, at the end of the Atlanta Aces row. Astros RS is above him, Lonborg is to his left, and Mikkelson is below him

1967 McNally
 

Two 1969's to add to this chain.

Both are Lew Krausse.
The first one looks like he has mold all over the card. It is actually printed on the card itself, looks like the blue dots like many of the 76s.

The second one has the red on the bottom left. I know the red bottom left is repeatable, I had to get a second one as the first one I ordered got lost in the mail.

The first one, only one I have seen so far.

Butch

RPD - 1970 Alan Foster #369 (black dot on cap)

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Hey Joe,

There is this one too.

Nice, Butch!


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Some more 74s…

#454T washout

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RPD #249 Mitterwald with light blue and partial border missing on Minnesota flag

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Phil Roof #388 snowman on back card number

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Interestingly placed fisheyes commonly found in this set

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The government lied!!! There was a third version. Ok, had to have some fun here. So as I’m working on the 1966 Topps set. I like to pick up extra RC’s, TC’s and CL from each year, I just think they’re really cool. I noticed on 1966 Topps checklist 183 a peach streak on the white boarder. I looked through countless eBay auctions and completed, I did find another version so I guess it’s not a 1/1 lol

1966 Topps 183a checklist large print
1966 Topps 183b checklist small print
1966 Topps 183c checklist large print with streak

Show...me...your print variations!
 

I obtained a 5000 ct box of 1977 topps recently and had fun going through it looking for RPDs. Too many notes to list here on this thread so I’ll just share one of the things I learned (not my discovery) and let everyone know I posted a separate thread entitled “1977 Topps Notes”

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It looks like all 1977 Topps Jerry Turner and Matt Alexander cards were printed that way and it was never corrected, I probably noticed it in 1977 as a ten year old but have forgotten since.

Blue Kinder
 

It was a blue Christmas for Red Sox fans after the immensely popular Ellis Kinder was sold to the Red Birds in December 1955. Topps captured the feeling across New England in a limited edition “blue Kinder” collectible in 1956.

Eric — Cardinal fans speak of that waiver wire deal with the same reverence as the Broglo for Brock deal

Is this is a confirmed reoccurring print defect?

Shane- to determine that just review the listings for Kinder for the next five years. If another one does not service in that time I think you can take it off your list :)

Picked this up at a show yesterday:

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I realize it's off-centered,but do you think the print mishap would take down the grade as well if I sent it in? It's a pretty sharp card otherwise.

Here are a few more. The Duncan in the middle has some smearing on the name and the one on the left has the name printed somewhat lighter. Two of the Odoms have a fisheye in the right border. The others are more one-offs I believe. I do not know what to make of the 66 but it has an odd sheen, the Fernando rookie has really dark printing on one version and light on the other and the 69 Deckle has part of the back showing on the front.

Alan

The 1966 Wickersham is probably a Venezuelan, the 1969 Deckle Edge Allen is a wet sheet transfer.

Thank you Cliff! I thought the 66 might be a Venezuelan but I have had a few of those from 66 and while they looked like mine, they did not have the same feel. I am probably misremembering though so I will go with it being one. A wet sheet transfer makes sense on the Deckle.

Alan

It is odd that the 1969 Topps Deckle Edge Richie Allen has a wet sheet transfer of Curt Flood rather than of the Allen card itself like all of the other wet transfers I have seen, Flood isn't even on the same row or column that Allen is.

Love these...saw some blue streaks in the 1969's...I had not seen these in the 1970 set until now!
Best,
Ed

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yeah, now I’m on a quest for some more white lightning. so far, no joy.

B. T.

Several cards from the 1979 E* sheet have a recurring blue ink explosion print flaw. I have quite a few of them but I didn't have Mike Krukow, I finally found one and the same eBay seller also had a Dave Collins that I was unaware of, it is above Krukow on the sheet.

Great find!

Good one Cliff

Apologies if this one was shown before, if so I missed it. Some of tht, like mine, have dotted i's in the signature. Others, like the pic I swiped from a listing, do not. m The ones with no dots seems to be way less common.

Vey nice cards Jim. There is a variation of his 56 card as well

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Thanks! I just looked at some 56s, sorry they're not graded, they're rough. is the line above his name the variation? And if so, how many colors are there?

That's the variation. There's a green line as well on the white back, at the least.

There is also a variant of the image. Both are plentiful but hard to spot. I can post if needed but there is a scan in the site I posted above under 56 Topps

Two new ones for me.

69 Aparicio: Well......I have looked for this variation noted in Mr. Dingman's list. So, since the application of variation explanations can be somewhat loosely applied, I am calling this one found. Team letters are sorta white, so they are white in places. Good enough.

75 Yount: Blue puddle. Not in immaculate condition, who cares. I now have one for my 75 set.

Woot!!!!

Cheers,

B.T.

There are few Yount variants involving the sky and whatever the object on the left was

I have one of those variations I am using as my base card. I believe the object on the left is a power line tower.

Added this to the latest version of Collectorisms...


920. Recurriations
The lesser cousins of ‘true’ error and variation cards whose collectability is based on the appearance of routine print anomalies and oddities, such as fish eyes, print dots, color streaks, border gaps, splotches, offsets, etc., on them.

See also: Printanomilator - a spirited collector of such material.

See also: Grasping at Flaws - the reality that if you search for these types of printing aberrations, there will always be an inexhaustible supply of ‘new’ discoveries to be found.

After searching the thread (using "Santo"), I didn't find this one mentioned, but in a Pac-Man-esque fashion, there is a blue streak being chased by the 'C' on Ron's hat on the 1972 Topps #555 Ron Santo card. It's easy to find and there's no doubt in my mind that it's already on people's E&V checklists. In fact, someone on eBay actually has "Blue Slash" in his title.

The 'regular' card is on the left, and the two on the right have said blue streaks running off of his hat into the distance...

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• But here's where it gets somewhat coolish and is the actual reason for this post.

In one of my 1972 Topps binder sets, the Santo has a gnarly neon-green streak passing under his nose (probably the 'same' streak as the hat one, but located differently). I have always been on the lookout to find another example of "Santogreenmustachio," but have never had any luck in doing so. Figured mine was just a one and done recurriation. (Here's where people will chime in to say, "Wait, I have three Santos and they're ALL the green mustache versions." :D)

(Side note: I actually prefer the spelling of "moustache," so it's odd that I'm using the other version here. Oh well.)

Denouement time. But the other day, out of nowhere, everything changed. I finally spotted another example of the card sitting forsaken inside of a PSA 6 holder...and immediately gobbled it up (Pac-Man reference) to claim my prize and secure a double!! Now, I can finally say there's confirmation that this thing truly exists out there!!!! (A very low-key) Woo hoo!!!!!


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Reading this post has caused you to squander away six to eight minutes of your life that you will never get back, and for that I apologize.

Nice find Darren, on a HOFer no less. I am always considering how to title these variations to attract the most attention. At least now I have a start on how to title the now infamous " Santogreenmustachio" variation once (IF) I can add a few to my EV collection.

Good ones Darren. I only had a blue streak with my set, so need a "normal" one as well as the green one. Likely to be a lot of folks looking now. Since it is a Cub I can think of someone else who will need one if he does not have it :)

I don't remember if it was mentioned here or not but the 1972 Topps Ron Santo In Action card also has a similar recurring print flaw as the regular 1972 Ron Santo just introduced.

Anyone ready for yet another wrinkle in the 1972 Santo saga??

Lookie what I ran across today...another separate placement of the blue streak (and, once again, the only example I can find). Whereas, the traditional 'blue streak' version is always positioned emanating out of the mouth of the 'C' on his hat, now there's one where it's lower than the Cubbie's logo (third card from the left).

Here's a progression of the (now) 4 versions.

Are there even more to be found??

1. Normal #555 Ron Santo card
2. 'Pac-Man' blue streak version
3. 'Under-C' blue streak version
4. Santogreenmustachio

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Cool stuff!!

Would the attached Alou card be considered the line in the 'T' in Astros?

I have not seen an example of this card yet to determine if this is the actual variation.

Thoughts??

B.T.

'72 Aspromonte Very strange dot. Color goes over it. Never seen such a large fish eye. If that's what it is.
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Depending on how crazily (read expensively) you want to chase recurriations, I present to you the 1968 Topps #280 'Cat Hair' Mantle, where two distinct strands of fur can sometimes be found floating on the breeze between his head and bat...

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This one is definitely harder to find than the normal version (card on the left above), but they are pretty abundant.

Good one Darren 😩

Nice card Cliff,

That one just does not come up very often. I have been looking for one for a while now. A long, long while.

Cheers,

Butch

I found these on eBay recently, the 1974 Terry Forster was the only yellow ink print flaw card from the 1974 265-396 sheet that I was aware of but didn't have, the 1964 Topps Phillies Team card came up on a 1963 Topps Phillies Team card search but I had to grab when I saw it. Surprisingly it is the middle of a row on the uncut sheet but it was on the bottom row of one of the Slits, that is probably the origin of the missing black ink. It is recurring but I didn't see any other copies nearly this affected.

What causes this double printing of the black?

I believe the whole sheet was double struck in error during the final black ink printing process by the printer.

Yep.

Interesting it's off so much. Usually these happen when a sheet feeds wrong and the image is still on the blanket for a second pass while it also gets a new image.
This also can happen during press adjustment.
Like this one where they were moving the black into registration, and it's got I think 5 impressions.

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Wrong place, moved to the Post - 80's
 

Carry on.

Sorry gents, way too much on my mind right now. Post moved over to the other 80's and later thread.

To follow-up on this post from LY.... I had forgotten that I had placed this 80 T Kobel card in a west facing window in order to see how it would compare to the 3 cards in Cliff's post. Well, below is the Kobel (with the bottom intentionally sunbathed), IMO it looks like the Kobel's red lettering is further bleached than the 3 cards Cliff found being offered on ebay. When compared to the Kobel, it appears to be a near certainty that the Rice, Tom P. and Nettles card were sunbathed to remove the red colored player name and it does not appear to be a factory misprint on these 3 cards.

Also evident on the bottom of the Kobel is which primary color fades first, second and third on a 1980 Topps card.

Nice work! I was already skeptical of his missing name cards but when he showed the Tom Poquette I knew they were bogus because on the real 80 Tom Poquette yellow name the banner is also affected with the missing red ink but on his the banner is the same as a normal 80 Poquette card.

Bob Lemon Red Heaert and his lemon colored eyes, hat, and thin line across the top

I apologize if this one’s doesn’t qualify or has been posted already ( I do not have the brain power to view all 50 pages )

1966 Topps
 

I found a 1966 Topps dick Stuart 480 with “I guess a scrape in Mets name banner”