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Originally Posted by bnorth
I use the Lenny rule, if I never seen Lenny selling it I consider it something someone faked/altered when it comes to the Ripken card.
Like you I remember the article on the white box but I have never actually seen one. What do you mean by aftermarket? I have never seen a whiteout that I believe someone didn't make at home but as far as I know all the scribble versions are 100% factory printed.
I am far from an 89 Fleer error/variation expert but I have owned a couple.  |
It seems to me that the language used in describing various whiteout corrections, back then and now, refers to Fleer employees hand-editing the bat knobs on the production line. I've never held a whiteout variation but I've followed dialog about the Ripkens for a few decades. Its always been odd to me that nobody since the hyperfocus on this card of the last 20 years has ever written an in depth description of the whiteout area: ie, is it the same surface gloss/texture as the rest of the card. I'm sure you have seen all the strange and varying white shapes that have popped up on ebay over the years and they are hardly consistent. This leads me to believe that any "white" was applied to either fully printed FF or Box (or Scribble) versions, in the factory or otherwise.