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[4reals]

74 Topps Traded Jim Ray #458T - blue dot in upper right background




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[G1911]

#134. Black dot in upper right. This version with the dot is more common, seems like maybe 3/4 cards that are centered properly have the black mark.

[G1911]

#136 in the 73 set, Earl Weaver with the brown background has this black line as a recurring variant. I haven't looked carefully, but don't have it on the orange background version of Weaver's card.

[G1911]

#139 comes with or without a small pink mark (it's much more noticeable in hand than the photo) below the "h" in "Chicago". Cards with the mark are a minority, maybe 10% or less I think but I haven't checked that carefully.

[G1911]

#169 Schueler also has a black dot in the upper right corner. Maybe 50% of cards, both versions are easy.

[G1911]

#182 Mike Caldwell has 2 recurring defects. The first is the blue streaking around his waist. In hand it is clearly in part of his jersey as well. The second is a black streaking in the upper left corner, to varying degrees.

The correct card is the vast majority of Caldwell's.

[G1911]

#184 Buford has black streaking on the right side, on the left side, both sides, or neither side. The clean Buford without black ink running seems to be least common to me.

Pictured is the both sides version.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by G1911

#136 in the 73 set, Earl Weaver with the brown background has this black line as a recurring variant. I haven't looked carefully, but don't have it on the orange background version of Weaver's card.

I could only find one Al Oliver with the line and no Carlton Fisk cards with the line but it's possible it stops on the Oliver.

[Cliff Bowman]

I found Plummer and Biittner with the line so it affected at least Weaver, Oliver, Fisk, Plummer, and Biittner, I couldn't find any Blyleven, Harrelson, Caldwell, or Harrah cards with the line but it no doubt runs through at least Blyleven. I have had a 73 Aparicio with a line at the bottom for years that I never knew what to make of, I believe now it was above Al Oliver on one of those 1973 sheets where they printed 66 cards twice rather than all 132 cards, I never understood why Topps used that method in the early 70's.

[e6phillips]

I know that these differences in the amount of red ink on his face don't really make a variation, but they are a new kind of "Short prints"!