1952 Topps Images of All Variations <Rolling Thread>

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Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

You never cease to amaze me Ted. Just curious if you think all yellow House gray backs lack most or all of the green neck?

Have you seen any yellow House gray backs with some or all of the green neck? Is there any correlation to the glossy fronts and the lack of green necks?

The house gray is ONLY found yellow or orange. No partial red/green throat. These are 2 seperate cards placed on the sheet.


This is because after the gray stock was used
In the beginning of the run. After switching to the cream stock, someone noticed the logos were different on the same house cards on the sheet and tried to stone off the red from around the correct version to have them match. I'm guessing this was easier than trying to add a mask to get the orange logo to have red added. Eventually, the whole mask was redone to have the tiger logos matching.

To me, the yellow/gray is the key card which proves my theory of not only the grays printed first, but of the house card having both an error and a variation on the same sheet!