Show...me...your print variations!

[jchcollins]

Sorry if this has already been covered. I scrolled through about the first 15 pages of this thread and didn’t see it, though: ‘58 Mantle base card and the print defect / variation next to his left eye. The copy I picked up this week has this, and I began to get a little worried as I looked around and saw that others didn’t. But then I began to find them. Including at least one in a PSA 7 slab, so that made me feel a little bit better.

Normal card without print spot:



Copies with it. The ungraded card here is mine:




You can see what I’m talking about, straight up from the word “New” in the team name below. Kind of like a fisheye if it were elsewhere on the card. I’ve seen this anywhere from a light blip up to a dark red dot. It seems to occur in maybe one out of 20 or slightly more cards that I looked at on eBay and online. I guess on the whole, if you could choose it’s undesirable, but I don’t know… This doesn’t jump out at me the way print snow on his cap would, or even a similar sized defect on the orange background field probably would.

Weird stuff, but as we know by now, print defects like this are anything but rare on 1958 Topps cards...


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