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

[frankhardy]

This one is not pre-1980, but I just discovered this in my McGwire box over the weekend. I know for a fact that it is reoccurring because I have 2 of these that are identical. I was just wondering if anybody knew how scarce it is, if at all. I do know that I searched Ebay and COMC and could not find another. Here it is.

[sb1]

Not a print variation/error. But some kind of inventory label that got on the sheet before cutting, collating and packaging.

[ALR-bishop]

That's a good one sb

[steve B]

I've never seen anything like that before. It's one of the cooler cards I've seen.

[Tripredacus]

Originally Posted by sb1

Not a print variation/error. But some kind of inventory label that got on the sheet before cutting, collating and packaging.

So this post motivated me of taking a picture of a similar card. It is from 2007, when Topps was making a bunch of Mickey Mantle cards. This one I pulled from a pack myself. The two interesting things about this card:
1. There is masking tape on the front of it.
2. The card is torn about a third of the way through where the tape is.

Here are the pictures:



I went and took pictures of just my Yankees errors. Not a lot of cards, only six cards in total. Only one is pre-1980, it is this 1976 Jim Hunter:


I collect error cards of all sorts, including severly damaged, modified and defaced cards. BUT most of them are post 1980, so should I end up posting them into here, make a thread similar to this in the Modern Baseball cards section, or just make a thread for my own pictures? There is a lot of post 2000 content in this collect, including a lot of hockey cards.

[ALR-bishop]

We have had several post 80 variants in this thread but given the length of this thread it might be good to have a post 80 sister thread. Others may think otherwise.

That tape job is interesting. Maybe since the tape was added before insertion in the pack it qualifies as an intentional change to the card and thus a true variation

[ALR-bishop]

Finally found one of these



Discussed by George Vrecheck in SCD article

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrE...7zBObuFfOmbJY-

[swarmee]

1968 Topps - [Base] #369 - The Sporting News All Star Selection (Carl Yastrzemski)
Courtesy of COMC.com

Two recurring print defects on this one:
1) Black blemish in left banner
2) Red circle fisheye near B on cap

So three variations: regular, one with just black mark, and one with black mark and fisheye.

[jbaskin]

Hi there,

I've been lurking a while and saw something that might be of discussion here. Saw this 1967 Topps Wilhelm card and the back was discolored. Does anyone know if this is fading or weird ink circumstances? I've seen others like this from different series (no apparent pattern), and one card who's back was brownish. I don't know what to make of it.

Joel

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Finally found one of these

So basically a sister variation to the Jackie Robinson with diamond logo cut off.

There is also a variation of this with white circle to the left of the Phillies ballcap in the diamond logo. I stopped counting when I saw 5 on COMC.

1955 Topps - [Base] #29 - Herm Wehmeier [GOOD]
Courtesy of COMC.com

[ALR-bishop]

John---here is SCD article on the Robinson and Herm. Note the Herm has a back variation that tracks the truncated front logo. Had not noticed the white mark

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9...7QjDQppuh3T3I-