New T206 Error - kidding

[wolfdogg]

Originally Posted by Jaybird

I have a 1 of 1 SILLLIVAN card.

Just kidding. But I wondered where you guys rank these kind of printing mistrikes. I kind of see them as neat but nothing more. Or is it more a question of how bad or how interesting the printing problem is?

Obviously, a printers scrap or something like Leon's multi-backed ghost print is something different than what is happening here. To me this is just a card getting slightly pushed or pulled at the wrong time.

I learned of this "Siilivan" card back in the 90s when someone (a serious T206 collector of which I can't remember who it was) listed it on eBay for like $1500. I didn't think much about it until while looking thru an album of T206s at the '99 National I saw 2 Sullivan cards side-by-side and it popped into my mind so I looked and.....one of 'em was this card. I bought both ($25 each) just to have it. This is only the 4th example I've seen or heard of since. I look on eBay from time to time and at auctions and dealers catalogs and at every show I attend....never found another in. Does that make it "rare" and "valuable"? NO.....but it's neat.....and only the 4th one in the 14 years that I've known of the card and countless T206s looked through....