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

[savedfrommyspokes]

Found this Del card with the limited, but recurring full and partial smudge on left sleeve.....only 1 of each left on ebay/COMC

[ALR-bishop]

Larry-- this is similar to the defect I posted in 621. Are they a defect that faded and disappeared in print process or a correction ? . I think likely the former

[savedfrommyspokes]

Al, the first thought I had when I saw these dark and light variations of this Crandall card were the 71 Northrup card and the 78 Wills....IMO these two cards are examples of attempts (pathetic at best) by Topps to "fix" the print spot/mark. I have heard some indicate that the 71 Northrup smudge has varying degrees of darkness, but I have had numerous copies of either a dark or a light smudge , but none that were varying in shade or in between(just my experience though). The lack of a variance in the degrees of darkness of the spot/mark would indicate to me that someone at Topps tried to fix the defect and was not completely successful.

So, without having seen any other copies of the Crandall with varying degrees of darkness, it would be tough to say if it was a defect that faded or a poor attempt at a correction.

[ALR-bishop]

These are my only 3 Northrup versions

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

These are my only 3 Northrup versions

Al, the two on the right are the two I have and have consistently seen over the years.....from the scan, I can't tell what the variation is on the card on the left though.

[ALR-bishop]

I was just including the common card with the other two

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I was just including the common card with the other two

That is what I thought, but with one of the world's largest collectors of Topps variations, I wanted to be sure that there was not some obscure variation I had missed on this card.