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Minor, minor, minor 1962 variation
I know some of you enjoy finding vintage variations and I ran across one while doing my work on the 1962 green tints. In my book, I wouldn't really consider it a variation, but there are other guys who collect EVERYTHING, so this may be pertinent to you.
On the Babe Ruth Special card #135 (non green tint version), there appears a stray hair next to the 'A' in the caption. In looking at ebay and other places, I ran across 3 or 4 of them, so it's not a one time thing. But it appears in only a fraction of the cards, so it is definitely rare, for whatever that's worth. The hair must have been on the final paste up of the layout before it was photographed and turned into printing plates. The only other difference I found between the two layouts is that the black caption in the yellow box of the 'hair' card appears a little lower than in the 'normal' version. That could simply be a printing anomaly of the black plate or it may be a true differentiation between the two versions. I dunno, but here it is... ruth135.jpg
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Good find Darren, I have not noticed this one before.
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Recurring Print defects
Me either. I tend to collect recurring print defects in older sets. Someone in a fairly recent earlier thread pointed out a similar recurring line defect in a 60s pitching leader card, I think involving Koufax. It too was scarce but fairly easy to locate on ebay. Nice find Darren ( yeah, I nailed it)
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Most likely a scratched plate. Interesting, at least to me. It looks like it goes off the bottom border, so there should be a card with the scratch showing at the top right.
The location of the black in the panel could be a slight difference, or simply that batch having the black printed a bit out of register. Plate scratches in general aren't all that common, once the plate is damaged it's often replaced. Steve B |
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Plates
If they replaced a plate to correct a defect, then in my mind it would be a variation. But on most recurring print defects I assume we will never know if an intentional change was made. But I do like to collect them if recurring.
I guess if PSA believes the green smudged ball on the back of the 61 Fairly is a variation, almost anything could conceivably be so classified by chance or whim of grading companies. Wonder if any of the other kids in the photo lived to collect that card Last edited by ALR-bishop; 02-21-2014 at 09:54 AM. |
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Speaking of the 61 Fairly, and not to hijack this thread, but did you see what this PSA 8 sold for? Insane. And not even a scan of the back to see how much of the green smudge is there. |
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Scratch versus smudge
Robert--wonder what a Ruth card, albeit a modern one, recognized as a variation to the 61 set would bring versus the Fairly. And you are right that while this scratch variant may be consistent in each instance it occurs, PSA is grading Fairlys with only a spec of green as a variation, as well as ones where the entire bottom of the ball is green. I would bet that if they do not show the back it is a spec version
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Printing Function
Good post Ted. Always good to have another printing guru on here. Steve has been great on this stuff
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Picked up one of these...and glad that I did.
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