1989 Fleer Randy Johnson #381 Marlboro Errors - 30 Years Later

[Hatorade]

Steve and Ben are both correct, but they are not PSA grader material.The cards are all examples of the common version and what should be labeled as Ad Completely Blacked Out, but instead they are labeled as all three of the different PSA versions.

[Hatorade]

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

[Smanzari]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

Can't tell from your pics; second down on the left appears to be Partially Obscured, but could be a dark scan with the full.

I actually just found a nice stack of these and literally never noticed the "Black Box" version until I started looking (knew the others) - was kind of cool to find!

[steve5838]

I also vote for "Ad Partially Obscured" on all of these round 2 cards. From my recent experience with PSA this is the only label they are putting on any Marlboro cards for me these days.

Being that it's Friday I figured I would waste a little time... A while back someone asked me about light on the clear version card. I recorded a little clip that others may be interested in seeing too and posted it up on YouTube. It doesn't have sound, but I threw captions on it. I guess you need to turn on the captions though... sorry, I probably should have just recorded audio. Also, sorry for the jittery camera it was just taken on my phone.

https://youtu.be/R0BaA8letSE

Steve

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

Ad Completely Blacked Out. Obviously.

[steve5838]

Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

Ad Completely Blacked Out. Obviously.

This is where it gets tricky and depends where they draw the line between partially obscured and ad completely blacked out. But of course there are differences between these and the fully corrected version. As a PSA grader I think I will just go middle of the road on all these cards with the Partially Obscured label so I'm never too wrong. Haha.

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by steve5838

This is where it gets tricky and depends where they draw the line between partially obscured and ad completely blacked out. But of course there are differences between these and the fully corrected version. As a PSA grader I think I will just go middle of the road on all these cards with the Partially Obscured label so I'm never too wrong. Haha.

Sorry, that was overt sarcasm.

[Hatorade]

Dylan was 100% spot on. Despite these cards all being examples of error variations, with a couple actually fairly lightly tinted versions, PSA has slapped the Ad Completely Blacked Out label on all of them. We have a new PSA grader in our midst!

[JustinD]

I have missed a few pages so if this was mentioned already, please forgive me. I was perusing 22' Topps Heritage and saw this one.

I am thinking this has to be on purpose as a designer joke -



Even Jeter got in on the action -