E101 Murphy printer's mark? Other freaks?

[edjs]

Hi all, I was wondering two things:

1- is this a real E101 card or a reprint that has been aged (I don't know the E101 set at all).
2- if it is real, does the printer's mark carry a premium with this set? I've seen that on the T206 set it can carry a HUGE premium, even on cards this messed up (if the subject is right).

The card was cheap enough that I went ahead and took the risk and made the purchase.

Which leads me to the next part of this thread:

What sets besides T206 are people after freaks/oddities/mis-cuts/printer's scrap/etc.? Sorry if this has been discussed before, I've only been here a few months.

[ullmandds]

looks real...many caramels have printing marks and historically they carry no premium...esp on a card that beat up.

[bn2cardz]

As the previous owner of this card that sold it as a lot I can tell you that it is, indeed, authentic. As far as the printing mark on them they don't seem to carry any premium.

[Leon]

I picked this one up from a board member last week as I liked the printer marks. You can see them faintly on the sides too. They don't add any value for the most part. Now if it were a T206 it would be worth around a billion or so dollars. To answer the other part of the question most freaks and oddities do carry a small premium. The more freakish and odd the more the premium. T205s are quite collected in that space....I paid around $75 for this E90-1.

[edjs]

Thanks guys, that is just the info I was looking for. This is my first E101, and it was on a "best offer" listing, so I figured, "why not, I don't have one." Sort of like the Honus Wagner T206, I don't have one, so why not? Oh yeah.....

Andy, thanks for vouching for the authenticity, even when I don't pay much, I hate to pay for fake.

So does anyone know what sets (other than T206) do people seem to really love freaks of? Also, can I ever buy a card that was not owned previously by a net54 member? I mean seriously, Andy owned this beat up ol' piece of cardboard, and remembers it? The best thing about being old is it is like getting new cards every time I open up one of my collector's albums. Hey, where did that come from?

Ed

[ullmandds]

it takes a freak...to overpay for a freak...at this time only T206 command huge premiums for freaks.

If a freak is "freakish" enough...in any set...it should command a premium...the more freakish...the higher the premium. The more popular the set...the more freakish the freak...the higher the price!

[edjs]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

it takes a freak...to overpay for a freak...at this time only T206 command huge premiums for freaks.

If a freak is "freakish" enough...in any set...it should command a premium...the more freakish...the higher the premium. The more popular the set...the more freakish the freak...the higher the price!

So, if I understand this right, there are freaks in every set, but not every freak is an valuable freak. But when you see a T206 freak that makes you say "what the freak," that is a super freak. Got it.