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Posted By: E, Daniel

Perhaps a touch deeper cyan/blue even, but nearly exactly that color. It completely missed the yellow ink I believe - can't see any under loupe around the indian head....

Interestingly enough, not long after buying it I attended a Chicago card show - can't remember exactly which amongst the sportsfest/national/etc., but it was out at rosemount, and that weekend they were shooting a live "sportscard roadshow" type television piece. Many of the biggest names were there, and people brought stuff up to first have it deemed worthy or not of the show, and then have it appraised/inspected. Well, I had the card with me so got in line and whoa, they wanted to use it on the show.

Well, 2 hours later I was now only one person back from going up in front of camera and they took the card up to the mavens for a looksee and discussion. I watched them all pass it around, stare intently at it, and then shake their head and eyes blankly......

They brought the card back to me and apologized, saying they couldn't use the card on the show because no-one had ever seen this missing ink variation before, therefore couldn't opine a value or any interesting background to it.

Disappointed obviously, I took it round to Standard Catalog, Beckett, SGC, heck anyone I could think of, all admired it and passed it to friends, said how neat an item it was but couldn't really tell me anything. SGC wouldn't slab it as a 'missing ink' variation at that time, in fact no-one would.

So it is my cornerstone, my collecting building brick, and I love it regardless that it has not brought me fame or fortune or sits rather forgettably in any SGC50 slab without special notation.




Daniel