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Old 09-14-2014, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Footballdude View Post
Personally, I believe there is a certain number of collectors in the hobby that do not want variations known because of the possibility that prices might take off and will cause them to have to pay higher prices for them. I have heard this from more than 1 person.

About 15 years ago I started collecting the purple sky variations of the 1963 Topps football set. I even made a website showing each one, which can be found in my signature below. I tried like heck to get the catalogs to recognize them, since they are kind of similar to the 1962 Topps "green tint" cards, but was met with skepticism wherever I went. I eventually gave up and got out of collecting for a while. When I recently got back into the hobby, I noticed there were a few people that list them on ebay, correctly, and there are a couple people on the PSA registry who recognize them, but have no idea if they are currently recognized in hobby publications. I haven't bought one of the BIG catalogs in at least 10 years.
Do those purple sky cards have cropping differences the way the '62 green tints do?
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