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

[savedfrommyspokes]

Here is another variation within a variation. The obvious/known variation is that the word "Outfield" is on the card. In flipping few a few of the OF copies, there is, along the lower left area of the image, what appears to be a hand/finger print smudge of sorts. This smudge is more obvious in hand.

I did not see any of the copies w/o "Outfield" that have this smudge. Possibly someone caused this smudge while reviewing the correction?

[savedfrommyspokes]

While it is well known about the cropping variations with the 63 Topps mid series cards, I noticed something new (at least to me) on the back of one of the cropping variations. On the back of the 387 McBean card, the text below the animation box starts with "Al". Corresponding to the front cropping variations, half of the cards have a yellow "A" and the other half have a white "A" in "Al". Also, on the yellow "A" card, the white box that the card number is printed in is smaller than the white card number box on the white "A" card.

[ALR-bishop]

If I recall in his SCD article on the 63 cropping differences George Vrechek did note the difference on the back of the McBean card. I think the article had comparison scans of the differences in all the cards involved ( 11 ? ), which was very helpful in tracking them down.

Not sure if it showed up earlier in this thread

edit---here is SCD article

http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geJ...zWC9manHnPNYw-

[Cliff Bowman]

There are also differences on the backs of the 1963 Topps double prints Norm Cash and Johnnie Wyatt, although they are more subtle. In the stat box on half of the Cash cards the line can be continuous all the way through between 3B and HR nearly touching the career HR 102 or it can be found with a shorter line on the other half of the Cash cards so that the line is not touching the number of 102 career HR’s, and on half of the Wyatt cards the line between Year and Team is continuous and nearly touches the 1957-58 stat, on the other half of Wyatt cards the line is purposely broken so that it doesn’t touch 1957-58.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Al, that was a good article. It has been a few years since I last read it, so I didn't remember the parts about the differences on these card backs. Like Cliff mentions, there are differences on many of the backs of these 11 cards. For example, on the Davenport card back, the white card number box is bigger on one version than the other.

[Sliphorn]

Notice in the left version that the ball in the inset is touching the inset margin, while in the right version it is not touching. His body in the inset is more present in the left version as well. In the main photo, the left version has the know of theta into the left margin, while the right version has the knob almost entirely IN the picture. The right version has his sweatshirt almost touching the right margin while the left one has it more into the photo. Also on the left version, a small part of his uniform is visible right above the red border and left of the inset circle as a result of this shift. The version with the shift to the right is on the front of the version that has the 3B/HR line on the back going past the number 102 to the bottom.

[nolemmings]

Here's a 1968 Rich Reese "Head in the Clouds" variation.