Show...me...your print variations!

[savedfrommyspokes]

Nice....was it hand cut?

[curtis-cards]

While looking through eBay for the Yellow cornered Ramos, I found this version on 2 or 3 listings. I picked this one up.

It has a full yellow line across the top border.

[brightair]

Nice catch Curt.

[Cliff Bowman]

If someone else has one of these, please let me know. It's the only one I have ever seen. If a previous owner erased the "P" or used chemicals to remove it they did a very good job. I have held it up to a bright light and didn't see any evidence of that.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Found this 68 Blefary with a "swipe" of missing print on the back...out of 35 copies on DC and COMC there were 3 copies I saw like this.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

If someone else has one of these, please let me know. It's the only one I have ever seen. If a previous owner erased the "P" or used chemicals to remove it they did a very good job. I have held it up to a bright light and didn't see any evidence of that.

Cliff, from the scan is almost looks like the "ball" is brighter (less dull) white than the white border. Does it appear the same in hand?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Cliff, from the scan is almost looks like the "ball" is brighter (less dull) white than the white border. Does it appear the same in hand?

I will have to find the card and look at it. I don't know why someone would painstakingly go through the trouble of very professionally eliminating the "P" in the ball and then just sell it on eBay as a common. I spotted it a few years ago and bought it for a dollar or so. But, until I see another one I will be skeptical of it.

[David W]

Nice blank back Hank Aaron.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Cliff, from the scan is almost looks like the "ball" is brighter (less dull) white than the white border. Does it appear the same in hand?

I'm convinced the white area in the ball wasn't filled in in any way, either someone very carefully erased the "P" or it was printed that way.

[savedfrommyspokes]

While the scans do not show this print variation as crisply as it appears in hand, these two copies of this 71 214 Al Ferrara card both have what I will call a streak of horizontal white lightening. Just above Al's hands, in between the right edge and light tower, is a squiggly white print line that looks as if it could be a horizontal bolt of white lightening out beyond the Shea stadium fence striking the light tower. .