Cards with wrong backs???

[ChiSoxFan]

Originally Posted by D.P.Johnson

Interesting...Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why some of these would happen...I mean, I can't imagine the Jeter/Koskie card being a "flipping" error when looking at the card numbers...

Cards are not printed "consecutively" on sheets, that is card #4 in the set is not between cards #3 and #5 ... here is an example from 1985 Topps Sheet (image from someones eBay auction).



Guessing there is no particular reason how card numbers are placed on the sheet.



Thanks,
ChiSoxFan

[Pat R]

You can see the outline of Koskie's name and stats under Jeter's, I think Steve explained how this could have happened when I posted this card before
but it was a while ago and I don't remember. I have a couple more with the
wrong backs on them that came from the same box that I had bought when
they first came out.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Pat R

You can see the outline of Koskie's name and stats under Jeter's, I think Steve explained how this could have happened when I posted this card before
but it was a while ago and I don't remember. I have a couple more with the
wrong backs on them that came from the same box that I had bought when
they first came out.

Either the blue plate had Jeter in Koskies place, or the sheet was run through the blue run for a different sheet.

Either way it's only a half-wrongback Pretty cool.

Steve B

[D.P.Johnson]

Thank you ChiSoxFan for that Topps scan...It's interesting they would print the cards that way (out of order)...Also, thank you Exhibitman for your scans...Perhaps the "old school" way of printing is what normally caused the "flipping" errors, and the new card errors are cause from some other printing method???...IDK...But all of these type of error cards are pretty cool...

[swarmee]

If I remember correctly (IIRC) from the Heath/Brookens one I posted before, the cards were laid out side by side on the front, but laid out the same way on the back. So instead of printing the Brookens on Brookens, it always printed on Heath in the early runs. Of course, this set had many other well-documented issues, so they made many changes to the print sheets over the run.

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, for what we collect it is usually a flipped sheet in the press. The card will often have an upside down back:




I am collecting a 1948 Leaf boxing wrong back set and the same cards always appear with the corresponding fronts, i.e., the Benny Leonard has the John L Sullivan back and the John L Sullivan has the Benny Leonard back.

FWIW, PSA won't slab these kinds of mistakes but SGC will [PSA kicked the part of my recent order that included a wrong back 1962 Drysdale and some other wrong backs and blank backs].