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

[Exhibitman]

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

[ALR-bishop]

You could collect hobby recognized variations, recurring print defects, one time print defects, out of registrations, wrong backs ( or fronts ), blank backs, proofs, miscuts , or just some of the above. Sometime back I chose to stick to recognized variations and recurring print defects on the theory there has to be some limits

I still wonder if one searched long enough you could find a variant for any pre 1981 post war card ( The only pre war set I collect also has a variation for each card in the set)

[steve B]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

You could collect hobby recognized variations, recurring print defects, one time print defects, out of registrations, wrong backs ( or fronts ), blank backs, proofs, miscuts , or just some of the above. Sometime back I chose to stick to recognized variations and recurring print defects on the theory there has to be some limits

I still wonder if one searched long enough you could find a variant for any pre 1981 post war card ( The only pre war set I collect also has a variation for each card in the set)

I'm almost certain that would be possible. Post 1981, say through at least 1991 it's almost guaranteed. Haven't found all of them yet, but have found differences that should affect the entire set.

Some of them of course are really trivial, or only visible with a magnifier.

Steve B

[Robs70sCards]

I feel sorry for Topps employees working in the print shop in this era. In what other occupation are your screw ups, mess ups and inattentiveness this well documented? :-D

[swarmee]

Yeah, but you don't know who any of them were, unless you could identify them by the fingerprint on the 1972 card earlier in the thread. ;-)

[ALR-bishop]

Would be great to run that fingerprint through the NSA database and see who shows up,

There is Topps set that pictures a bunch of it's staff and workers...from the 70s I think

[savedfrommyspokes]

It typically seems harder to spot print variations on HOFer cards as most collectors do not have as many duplicate copies of HOFer cards as they might have with commons....here is a recurring white print mark on the front of this 68 Gibson WS card

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

There is even less demand for those wuth the error on the back:





Mike

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The lovely thing about collecting print freaks is that most dealers classify them as junk. I picked these out of junk boxes at the National:

I love drastic miscuts and if I found a Yount cut that bad in a junk box it would have made my day.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by JustinD

I love drastic miscuts and if I found a Yount cut that bad in a junk box it would have made my day.

..this is a 1954 Topps Brooklyn Dodgers hurling ace Clem Labine ; despite being off-centered and with a 'drastic' diamond miscut , there is a distinct red-orange added color to the left side of the bottom where the white border should be. The surface is mint 9. Despite all its problems it still was graded ''Excellent : SGC 60". I've heard that there are people who actually look for and collect cards like this .

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[ALR-bishop]

Good one Mike. It is scarce but seems to be recurring. Found a couple on ebay with same defect

[JollyElm]

There is already one variation regarding 1972 card #619 Rich McKinney, where a small vertical blue line crosses the top right border, but there's also another one.

If you look at the orangey area between the 'Y' and 'A' in "YANKEES,' there is an errant blotch of yellow appearing there on a good number of these cards. And it's coupled with a yellow 'teardrop' which seemingly emanates from his right eye.

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[ALR-bishop]

Knew I had the blue bar version so assumed I needed the blotch/tear version, but turned out that was my "regular" card. So now I need a normal card

It is interesting how many cards there are in this thread with more than one recurring print oddity on different cards

[JollyElm]

Continuing with the theme of finding further variations of a card that already has a known variation, I present 1972 #306, Ken Boswell IA.

We know about the version of this card that has a red/orangey line cutting in front of the swinging Boswell (Whoa, that sounded weird. I have no idea if Kenny went to any key parties in the 70's). In my Errors & Variations thread in the B/S/T, I included an example of this card having a thick red streak in that same area, and I assumed it was just a random error. But now I've found other examples of this anomaly, so it is, in fact, recurring…

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