Help... Variation in 1981 found.... no listing

[ALR-bishop]

It would not appear to be a blackless card because on the 82 blackless cards no black ink occurs at all. Below are examples of blackless cards from 1982 and 1968. The red ink on Cubbage is messed up ,something like what happened on several of the 1980 Topps cards that became quite famous when the red was diluted and left only a dirty yellow, such as the yellow Stanley ( there are 6 to 8 of them), and they are listed in SCD. Examples below .

[ALR-bishop]

Joe

Your Cubbage print error may be more like some of these 80 defects. The yellow name defects/variations carry a premium since they are listed in SCD as as variations...even though they are just print defects...like the 1961 Fairly green smudge on the back baseball, which PSA had now slabbed as a variation, even though it also is just a print defects.

[joe dean]

thanks for info...in have some 82 blackless and i sold the fred stanley 1980 on ebay ---- for some good money a few yrs back...... what do u think the cubbage card is a variation/error/ or just print defect - with little or no value....

ty - joe dean

[ALR-bishop]

I think it is a print defect, but some print defects, such as the 80 Stanley, the 52 Campos, the 57 Bakep and the 58 Herrer, and even the 61 Fairly have gone for large premiums, but only after being recognized as a "variation" in a major publication, Like SCD or Beckett, or in the PSA Registry master set list. Absent that, they are just oddities collected by a few oddballs...like me

[mcadams]

Interesting thread. If you're into registry collecting, you have to be up on the variations, because you never know when something you "think" is a print error might wind up in the composite of your master set.

[ALR-bishop]

Michael---the 61 Fairly certainly proves your point. That defect occurs on numerous Topps 61 cards and they slab it as a variation whether the whole lower part of the ball is green or just a smidgeon

[4reals]

I agree mcadams, better to stay ahead of the curve than in a reactionary state and miss the boat.

[ALR-bishop]

There is however a medical term for such an obsessive state of readiness in regard to pieces of cardboard