What's up with this end price?

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I definitely can see a premium for that type of T card. I've owned T206 ghosts and I have a couple of 1948 leaf blank backs and wrong backs (boxing). I've also got a few Topps cards with missing inking on the backs (only the crappy looking colored layer made it to the card, not the stats). They make nice additions to a set or collection.

It is interesting, though, that as the cards age and reach all but untouchable prices, our appreciation of the desirability of misprints and other process related errors goes up. This is nothing new. When I was a young whippersnapper collector I remember people paying premiums for errors on old sets, back around 1975. It fell out of vogue when the new card makers around 1981 started intentionally flubbing their cards (Fleer, especially) and creating those infamous crazes. I kind of like to see it coming back.