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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Three pre-War (WWI) variations picked up this past year.....



And this post-War (WWII) 1949 LEAF tough printing error.....


T-Rex TED

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Posted By: JimB

Ted,
I love the Elberfield no team. Have you ever seen that before? I wonder if it was a link between the NY and Washington varieties.
JimB

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Nice pickup on that Elberfeld Ted. Is that something you discovered or was this a known variation/error?

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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- don't want to spoil the fun, but didn't you tell me the team designation was just scraped off the card? Or am I imagining this?

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Posted By: Dylan

I immediatly thought that the team designation may have been removed. See how the card is scratched up right where it would be?

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Posted By: J Hull

Here's a few of the more interesting ones I acquired in 2006. Missing ink, usually red, varieties.

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Posted By: Scot York

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I now have 20 % of this set with these color errors (I refer to them as SLATE cards).

This subset comprises 22 - SLATE cards from the Lo# series and 27 cards from the tough
Hi# series.

To answer another related on-going thread......when you have completed the normally
printed cards in a set......then you go after the "strange cards" because they are a
novelty....and therefore, the "challenge" must continue....therein is the real "appeal".

OK guys, I started this topic 1st.....so, let's see some more of your errors and variations ?

The Rookie cards of the Duke and Campy.....

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Posted By: rob

t206 variation...known variation with an unknown back.

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Posted By: Griffin's

Don't know if these count, since they were meant to be issued in 4 colors:


But I"m sure these do:

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Here is my ORANGE colored Cobb....with "snowflakes"....perfect for the season.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Ted, what's the deal on the Elberfeld??? Scratched off team name or a genuine error/variation?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

DAN B

The Kid Elberfeld card is missing the team caption due to a flaking (or chipping) off
of the lower front of the card.

Here is my Marquard with the same type of disintegration of the front. I have other
T206's that have varying degrees of front disintegration in the picture area.

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Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted

Here's another "strange" 1949 Bowman.

T-Rex TED

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Your Orange Elberfeld is one neat card....if you ever decide to part with it....I would
be very interested in acquiring it.

Also, my experience on the Waddell portrait is that the deeper Blue ones are usually
from the 350 series, and the lighter Blue are usually representative of the 150 series.

Do these two you have displayed here follow this pattern ?

Happy New Year to you,

TED Z

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Posted By: J Hull

Hi Ted.

I'll check the backs of the Waddells tonight. I too have noticed the pattern of different blue shadings on them. What I haven't generally seen, though I could just have missed it, and what I like about the cards I have, is the brown/red contrast in his uniform trim. It's quite obvious on these two cards.

Jamie

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Posted By: Martin Neal

I usually try to pick these variations up whenever I see them. I missed a very nice color variation on Ebay last week of Kruger to the Holygrailcollector.

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Barbeau no insignia


George Perring with his blond haired brother




Dahlen (no B), Shappe, Willis Grey background

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Posted By: JimB

Just sold this over the weekend to a fellow board member.
JimB

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Posted By: J Hull

Hi Ted.

The lighter blue Waddell on the left above is Piedmont 150. The darker blue on the right is Sweet Caporal 150, Factory 30.

The orange Elberfeld is a cool-looking card, I agree. No plans to sell it though, but I'll make a note that you could be interested should that ever change.

Happy New Year

Jamie


What the heck, here's a couple more HOFers.

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Posted By: Martin Neal

Ted,

Both of these are from the 150 series. They're exactly the same as Jamie's, the lighter one being a Piedmont and the darker of the two being a Sweet Caporal.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Thanks Jamie and Martin

My theory is that the Piedmont cards were the very first T206's to be printed.
And, after completing an all-Piedmont set of 518 cards, I noticed that when they
printed the subsequent brands (SC, Sov, etc), they must have used a richer Blue
ink. If you look at all the blue colored Piedmonts in the 150 Series you will notice
a pale Blue background.
When you look at the 350 series cards (even Piedmont) the Blue colors are richer.
Chase (portrait), Burchell, Clymer, Knabe, Knight, etc, etc. come to mind.

Ted Z

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Posted By: paulstratton

T206 Casey

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

That Johnson card is a very strange card, and also very awesome looking.

He got short-changed in the inking process on that press run.

Incidently, what back is on it, and does the back have it's normal color ?

TED Z

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Posted By: daryle

got this (finally) for my '52 Set.....now to get the red/black 1-80 complete






does this count?......notice the blue line at bottom......bottom of sheet maybe????

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Posted By: Trevor Hocking

Pretty cool thread. Love to see the color variations. I never really collected color variations but I did get this card in a collection I bought sometime ago and always like it so I kept it.

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Posted By: David Smith

Scot,

I do not have the 2007 SCD, so what are the new variations with the York Caramel cards? Are they the ones with the team name on the front of the jersey or the ones without?

I have scanned my 11 cards and they are in the "collecting 1920's cards" thread.

Thanks,

David

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Posted By: Scot York

David,
The old book only showed the #35a Clifton Heathcot (incorrect spelling) & #35b Clifton Heathcote (correct spelling)

The 2007 book points out:
#8a Herb Pennock (team name on jersey)
#8b Herb Pennock (No team name)
#12a Bob O'Farrel (team name on jersey)
#12b Bob O'Farrel (No team name)
#35a Clifton Heathcot (team name on jersey)
#35b Clifton Heathcot (No team name)
#35c Clifton Heathcote (correct name spelling) (team name on jersey)
#38a Emory Rigney (team name on jersey)
#38b Emory Rigney (No team name)
#56a Rogers Peckinpaugh (card number upside-down)
#56b Rogers Peckinpaugh (card number corrected)

There may be more variations, about half of these were previously unknown until last year.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

A bad case of color printing registration and a miscut on this 1949 LEAF Billy Johnson card.

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Posted By: Griffins

Ted- the Platt looks like it must've been on the same press run as the Musial that was auctioned in Mastro last spring. Thanks for posting it and the Johnson. The production manager on this issue must've been drunk all the time.
Dan McKee has a stack of Leaf color variations as well, hopefully he'll post some.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

You could be right.....and if so, that means there are 47 other cards that were on the 1949
LEAF sheet that have the same lack of color.

I wonder how many of these cards are still in circulation ?

TED Z