1989 Topps oddity

[Jim65]

Looks like the cardboard stock didn't get the white coating before printing.

As a Mets collector I would love to find a card like that.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Looks like the cardboard stock didn't get the white coating before printing.

As a Mets collector I would love to find a card like that.

As Steve pointed out if that was the case the uniform (and the topps logo) should be brown. White isn't a printed color. White is revealed as blank spots where the rest of the colors are printed.

[ALR-bishop]

Seller believed it to be a proof/prototype card that came from Topps Vault. He said he had others...all from sheet F. I mentioned earlier that the back is like my regular Elster card. This is the back of the gold border version

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

As Steve pointed out if that was the case the uniform (and the topps logo) should be brown. White isn't a printed color. White is revealed as blank spots where the rest of the colors are printed.

The card stock is white on 1 side and plain on the other, the white border is not printed on with other colors, its already there before the pic is printed.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Jim65

The card stock is white on 1 side and plain on the other, the white border is not printed on with other colors, its already there before the pic is printed.

They wouldn't do just the white boarder. They would lay down a white coating then print the other colors over the top. The way you are suggesting they would do the white boarder, then lay down the other colors on top of a cardboard color yet still print the white topps logo as well as the uniform... there is no white ink in the color process. White has to be laid down first then printed on. So why would they do the borders, and then print the white inside of that separate?

[ALR-bishop]

...on ebay is shoehart

[nolemmings]

or shoeheart

[ALR-bishop]

......that