89 Upper Deck Griffey " rare error " ?

[ALR-bishop]

Timmothy---do not take this wrong, I am a set and variant collector and ask this a lot on the board. What would be your definition of a true variation ?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Timmothy---do not take this wrong, I am a set and variant collector and ask this a lot on the board. What would be your definition of a true variation ?

I'm not really a variation collector, so you have to take it with a grain of salt. But having colors various shades is a normal part of the printing process and happens to all cards to various degrees. So I don't really consider those types of things variations. If something unusual and out of the normal process happens, that can be a variation to me. But you can put two of the same card together and there will always be some variance in color/brightness, etc...

But again, people are free to collect anything they want and to look for variations of any type they want. Different shades of color is open to interpretation, and that's fine.