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05-12-2020, 04:51 PM
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That would absolutely be considered original artwork for the card! I went and looked at the Heritage auction description, and I think they seriously under described it! A "final pre-printing" sounds like a printed proof, and that's not what this is. I think the original sale price at the Topps auction (especially in 1989) was VERY high, and I think the price you got it at was pretty low! So hard to know with these true 1/1s - maybe the original buyer was a big fan of Kansas City sports, since he was with KC in this artwork, and had won the World Series managing the Royals (before his tragic passing) a few years prior to 1989.
Anyway, love these flexichromes - nice to see some folks share theirs! 
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05-13-2020, 09:20 PM
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A touched up photo is the original art if it was photographed to make the card. Here is an example from the Vault:
 Is it possible that the Howser is a 'draft' version used to make decisions on colors for the final?
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05-14-2020, 06:16 AM
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Hey Adam! The Howser is definitely a flexichrome "painting" of an original (likely) B&W photo. The notes visible appear to be instructions on how the picture was to be painted, with instructions like "Red KC" and "Black and red stocking - Red Stripe" for the cap insignia and the stripe on the socks. I think they would generally note fine adjustments in the printers proof process, as I have seen proofs where notations on the colors were made. But I will let others more versed on the process chime in!
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05-14-2020, 11:16 AM
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Yup, flexichromed. What they did after I don't know exactly but they cropped it up top (note the top horizontal line on the right side tape) and also (unindicated) a little on each side before adding the neatline and player and team name plates below. It's the best example -- and certainly the most colorful -- of an original Topps flexi I can ever recall seeing.
Last edited by toppcat; 05-14-2020 at 12:53 PM.
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05-15-2020, 09:21 PM
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I think the unissued Pumpsie Green I have is from the same year as the Gentile - I am guessing 1959. Looks like they both would have been suitable in style to the other Sporting News Rookie cards, many of which look to have been flexichromed. Pumpsie did get called up later in 1959 breaking the color barrier for the Red Sox, the last team to do so.
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05-16-2020, 09:47 AM
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My blog post on the Howser is up-thanks again to Rob:
http://www.thetoppsarchives.com/2020...bout-that.html
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