1991 Topps variations

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

These two are tricky. The Olson helmet thing may be the result of on an offset or misaligned plate that creates the effect of the A entering the inner border frame. I was always skeptical of it as a true variation but it seemed accepted by everyone else.

To clarify the Murphy, this refers to the piece of burgundy border/frame that touches his bat. The Murphy bat variations should be fairly easy to find, ten+ years ago, I saw both so frequently I stopped pulling them from boxes.

I hope this helps make some sense of these two.

Dylan, are you talking about a color shift similar to these Plantier examples where in one the inner frame line extends into the bat and on the other it stops at the bat?

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[steve B]

It's very slight, but those two black layers are different.