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Old 09-17-2014, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop View Post
Glyn-- I have what I think is a pattial black star, as well as a black star and one of the missing front borders. The partial black stars are what make me think of the black stars more like print defects than variations. I do believe that maybe some of the black stars and partials could be fakes due to the notoriety and value of the cards. Hope mine are not :-)

Steve-- I view DPs with differences, even cropping differences, as variations. While the manufacturers may not have intended the differences, they did intentionally double the card in the printing process, and that led to the differences... like the 63 cards Vrechek wrote about. But, that's just the way I look at it. To each their own.
I agree the DP differences are variations.

I just have to recognize that many collectors don't - Either because they don't want to bother with small differences to have a "complete set" Or because recognition would make the master set huge, or to avoid having to spend still more on an already expensive registry set.

I collect them all in an ambivalent way. If get them I keep them. But I hardly ever deliberately try to find them. And I keep the printing problems and the ones I think are variations in different places.

Steve B
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