1948 Leaf Printing Inconsistencies?

[tedzan]

Hi Brendan

1st, I have to tell you the Grading Company's have mis-labelled these LEAF BB cards.....the year is incorrect. These LEAF cards were never issued in 1948. The 1st series
of 49 cards were issued in the early Spring of 1949. The 2nd (SCARCE) series of 49 cards were issued in the Summer of 1949. I explain this in more detail in my article.

As you probably know, a complete set consists of 98 cards; and, 3 variations. There are numerous color variations which were the result of inconsistent printing of these
cards. I will focus on the printing anomalies in the next post.


The key card in the 1st series is Babe Ruth.


The key card in the 2nd series is Leroy "Satchel" Paige. This card is his first (or rookie card) in a Major League uniform. It is very scarce.

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TED Z

[tedzan]

Here are some of my LEAF printing anomalies.


Williams (card at left) is normal Red background...........while this Williams is Magenta

.................The light Blue Musial is a color error............this dark Blue is normal



......Mizell Platt missing the Blue background





Gordon and Dillinger with two shades of Blue




A normally Green Billy Johnson and one that missed the Blue ink pass



The Cincinnati Reds were printed with red caps (except Peterson) in the early press runs of the 1st series. Subsequent press runs, LEAF changed his cap to red.



TED Z

[E93]

Another contribution:
JimB

[Griffins]

Ted's article was by far the best information I"ve ever found on this set.

Here's a few that I used to own.

[Griffins]

[poorlydrawncat]

So cool, thanks for all the great contributions! And Thanks Ted for all the info, this is exactly what I was looking for. Does anyone know the relative rarity of different printing anomalies (magenta vs. red, missing color, etc.)?

[Griffins]

the white backgrounds are near impossible, other than the one Ted posted the only other I've seen is Musial, which sold a few times in Mastro about '06 or so.
Anecdotally I"d figure magenta is tougher than red, but other than that it's just a matter of see what comes up in regards to yellow vs. gold, lt blue vs dark blue, etc.
Other than the white background Musial I haven't seen a premium placed on any color variation.