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Greg EcklundTo me, an error card would involve some mistake made in the process of putting a card together rather than in the process of printing and cutting the card. For example, the "Magie" and "Magee" T206 cards would be a legitimate error to me, as would the infamous (at the time) 1989 Upper Deck reversed negative of Dale Murphy.
I see on T206Museum.com that a badly miscut Howie Camnitz just sold for $1715, so clearly there are plenty of people that strongly disagree with me, but to me that card is a curiosity or printer's scrap and would be worth much less to me than a regular Camnitz. When I was younger and ripping open Donruss and Fleer packs, we would always be disappointed if we got a card that was half Kent Hrbek and half Kent Tekulve because those cards were widely considered printers scrap and worthless...I can't apply a different standard to a T206 just because it is much older.
The "ghost overprints" and "ink missing" variations don't make much sense to me either, but I could make a better case for those being errors than I could for a miscut card being one - they still don't fit my personal definition though.
Understand that I'm not trying to denigrate anyone that collects miscuts, overprints, or the like, it is just something that we have different views on.