Printing Errors.. Why aren't they all valuable?

[Blunder19]

Just wondering why cards like the Noodgrass missing the S... and Dopner variation.. are worth so much $$... but other cards with similar errors are not worth extra $$.. an example is the Lundgren Chi variation below.. no paper loss.. the "N" is clearly missing... so it reads more like LUl.DGREN ... but not any different then a normal Lundgren..

probably because someone has not collected enough of them to corner th market and then demand them be recognized. They will all be recognized someday I am sure.

BTW is it only excluded to 1 single back, or multipule backs found this way?

[bijoem]

simple lack of interest.

there has to be demand outweighing supply for the price to go up.

[Leon]

It seems like I have this conversation almost every day. Value is always a 2 sided equation, demand vs supply, as Joe said. Many print errors are valuable but there has to be demand for the particular card. Here is one for the newbies on the board who might not have seen it....

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Leon

It seems like I have this conversation almost every day. Value is always a 2 sided equation, demand vs supply, as Joe said. Many print errors are valuable but there has to be demand for the particular card. Here is one for the newbies on the board who might not have seen it....

What I alway love about that card is thinking of the number of time that cardboard sheet must have passed through the printing presses. On the back it looks like you have Piedmont, Old Mill, EPDG (twice, right side up and upside down) , and Cy. The printer must have used and reused that scrap every time he changed the presses.

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

All you have to do is post it on the board about every six months, in about 2 years there might be 3 or 4 collectors that decide they want it. You than give it do a auction house to over hype the card for what it is and the next thing you know the card is worth thousands of dollars.

It's a simple equation, it's happened in the past and I am sure it will happen again.

Lee

[T206Collector]

....I think Murr'y, nodgrass and Shappe are really lame variations that shouldn't be recognized as legitimate printing errors like, e.g., Magie and Doyle N.Y. Nat'l.

In other words your Lundgren is every bit as (un)special as nodgrass to me!

A lot of times people will try to collect these things cause they heard on an internet chat board that someone somewhere is paying a premium for them. Don't believe the hype!

[iggyman]

Leon,

I've been painstakingly researching that upside-down T206 Mullaney for ya. I realize that my William Howard Taft theory was shot down due to cutting edge technology ("ear lobe forensic science" --- thanks for nothing David!!!) But this time I've got it. It's not Cy Young on that image but "William Randolph Hearst!" The time-line fits perfectly and it makes alot of sense for some printing press operator to use his image for printer scraps. I realize the truth hurts sometimes and this revelation definitely shoots down the value.....so if you want to get rid of it, please forward a PM and I will FYI a SASE.

Lovely Day...