Agreed in most cases we will likely never know. The 55 Purkey you mentioned recently in the Variations thread is a another good example. There always seems to be either a very visible blue dot or a less visible greenish dot. Did they attempt to make the blue dot defect less noticeable ? Who knows?
In the 63 Bombers Best Card did someone at some point try to make the bat handle in Mantle's crotch look less obvious ?
Trying to limit the definition of a true variation to an intentional change in the card only solves things if you can always tell when an intentional change was made....unless you limit it to situations where there is no doubt the change was intentional, like the 59 trade/option cards
Last edited by ALR-bishop; 01-15-2022 at 02:34 PM.
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