1958 topps Aaron

[bnorth]

The blue Aaron cards are ALL altered. Here is mine in a SGC slab and pictures of it magically changing from green to blue. This is the only known blue version with bright yellow in the Braves logo.

[BillP]

thx for the update. sounds right. I was wondering my other green backgrounds of the 1st series were never brought out as blue as well.

billp

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by bnorth

The blue Aaron cards are ALL altered. Here is mine in a SGC slab and pictures of it magically changing from green to blue. This is the only known blue version with bright yellow in the Braves logo.

LOL. Looks like Hank didn't get his SPF 30 sunscreen?

[sb1]

here's one that is blue and has no yellow at all. It came from an original group of 58's, several with no yellow at all, missing that color pass, presumably shortly after the change from yellow to white team/name changes.

[BillP]

Interesting and graded. Maybe it's a proof card of some sort.

[ALR-bishop]

Very interesting card

[stlcardsfan]

Ben, are you saying you "bleached" this card from the darkest green raw version to the blue version in the slab? How? And how did it not affect the other colors on the card?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by stlcardsfan

Ben, are you saying you "bleached" this card from the darkest green raw version to the blue version in the slab? How? And how did it not affect the other colors on the card?

Yes I changed the colors on the one pictured in the SGC slab. The other pictures are of that card during the process. No I will not tell you how it is done.

On 58 Topps just having them in a lighted display case will cause them to lose the yellow after a couple years.

I collect errors and have been burned by people altering cards. So I learned how to do it so I know what to look for in a real and altered error cards.

[ALR-bishop]

Most, if not all, of the blue Aaron's I have seen still have some noticeable yellow left in the logo circle

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by sb1

here's one that is blue and has no yellow at all. It came from an original group of 58's, several with no yellow at all, missing that color pass, presumably shortly after the change from yellow to white team/name changes.

I would bet that Aaron and the other cards from that group sat out and faded. On 58 Topps the yellow disappears really really easily. I have seen several that look exactly like yours except for a little square, rectangle, or circle of green background. That happens from the card setting in a display case with a price sticker, that's how easy they fade.