1953 topps mantle with F stamp help

[onlythefinest2327]

Looks like the f is under the letters?

[ALR-bishop]

Do you happen to have a black light ? If so, see what the F versus the numbers look like under it

[hangman62]

Yes,
I agree. What the F*** is that !

[onlythefinest2327]

So I just got home from work and took the card under 10x magnification and to my best knowledge it looks as if the f is under the letters/numbers. The black around/over the red is crisp and clear. Im thinking if the card was stamped over the black that there would be some fading of the black or dis coloring of some sort but the black looks sharp. The card came from a guy that pulled it himself and just started selling his cards.

[pawpawdiv9]

i found this tad bit info:
http://vbbc.forumotion.com/t1959-car...ng-on-the-back
Re: Cards with interesting stamps/writing on the back
Post by Abravefan11 on Wed May 20, 2009 7:58 am

joejack wrote:
I have only purchased 1 card with a stamp on it and quickly sold it to a collector of that particular stamp. For the life of me I can't remember the exact stamp but as I recall it was a LARGE single letter, old english style font.. argh. Do specific stamps or overprints demand a premium??


If the letter is an "F" it's a stamp I have seen on T206's. Some people believe they could be from the collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

and here in the Net54 Archives: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=89645



***** Of course these were older cards and were BLACK letters in Old English format....just maybe something like this was done elsewhere is all im saying????

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

i found this tad bit info:
http://vbbc.forumotion.com/t1959-car...ng-on-the-back
Re: Cards with interesting stamps/writing on the back
Post by Abravefan11 on Wed May 20, 2009 7:58 am

joejack wrote:
I have only purchased 1 card with a stamp on it and quickly sold it to a collector of that particular stamp. For the life of me I can't remember the exact stamp but as I recall it was a LARGE single letter, old english style font.. argh. Do specific stamps or overprints demand a premium??


If the letter is an "F" it's a stamp I have seen on T206's. Some people believe they could be from the collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

and here in the Net54 Archives: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=89645



***** Of course these were older cards and were BLACK letters in Old English format....just maybe something like this was done elsewhere is all im saying????

Fitzgerald's stamp was a bit more stylized.

From the picture, it definitely looks like the stamp was there first. However, it could just be that it did not adhere to the black letters when placed on there?

[onlythefinest2327]

So far I haven't come up with anything other than a stamp from a personal collection?? I bought some cards off of a guy who pulled them back in the 1950's and has had them sitting in a cigar box since then. I asked him about it and he has no clue.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by onlythefinest2327

So I just got home from work and took the card under 10x magnification and to my best knowledge it looks as if the f is under the letters/numbers. The black around/over the red is crisp and clear. Im thinking if the card was stamped over the black that there would be some fading of the black or dis coloring of some sort but the black looks sharp. The card came from a guy that pulled it himself and just started selling his cards.

I'm no magnification expert, but I blew up a portion of the scan you made and it appears to me that the red color is overprinted, not underprinted. Looking at just the periodic dots, the one in the red appears to be darker and slightly redish in color, which I would take to mean that the dot is under the red print - no?
Some, not all, of the other numerals give me the same impression under extreme blowup viewing. I could be wrong, but maybe your seller has a less than perfect memory regarding the card and its stamp. By the way, F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, so I doubt that he collected any 1953 Topps cards.

[ALR-bishop]

....like Andy Pettitte, the seller may have misremembered ?

[Volod]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

....like Andy Pettitte, the seller may have misremembered ?

Al - I usually forget what I don't remember anyway.