Thoughts on 1971 Topps yellowless?

[ALR-bishop]

Kevin

I had seen the Munson offered before but admit I thought it was a fading issue. Maybe not. Do you know if the Garvey and Munson were on the same sheet and if so who else was on that sheet ? Maybe Dave H knows

Al

[onlychild]

I have no idea about the sheet placement.

It may be a good time to start a checklist (if possible). We can now confirm:

Munson (2)
Clemente
Garvey

These were probably identified because they are star cards and were closely scrutinized. There has to be more commons out there as well.

I've also seen a 1971 Topps blueless(?).


Kevin Saucier
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[jmoran19]

Originally Posted by ALR

Kevin

I had seen the Munson offered before but admit I thought it was a fading issue. Maybe not. Do you know if the Garvey and Munson were on the same sheet and if so who else was on that sheet ? Maybe Dave H knows

Al

Munson is a series 1 card, Garvey series 3 and Clemente series 5 so definitely not a same sheet issue.

[GasHouseGang]

We've all seen those Topps sheets from their archives that are printing sheets of different colors. I'm not a printing expert, but I'm sure someone out there is that can speak up about printing anomalies. Why should I care if they simply let the printing press run out of yellow ink? Interesting, but not a variation worth paying big dollars for, in my opinion.

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

We've all seen those Topps sheets from their archives that are printing sheets of different colors. I'm not a printing expert, but I'm sure someone out there is that can speak up about printing anomalies. Why should I care if they simply let the printing press run out of yellow ink? Interesting, but not a variation worth paying big dollars for, in my opinion.

It's funny though how people will pay big bucks....like me... for mere print defects like the Herrer, the Bakep and the Campos. More recently, the SCD catalog lists fairly big premiums for the 1982 Topps blackless cards. That was a hard set for me. Also there have been big premiums paid (guilty again) for the 1980 Topps yellow names.

Why do people pay a premium for them ? Is it just because they are in the Catalog or in the hobby lore, even if by accident ?

Does anyone have a view on whether the 58 yellows or 69 whites are anything more than print defects ? I know Bob L is rethinking his criterea on variations for the big book, but currently you can find examples that I guarantee will not fit whatever definition anyone comes up with.

And, by the way, does anyone have....has anyone seen...that 1962 Topps Roy Sievers stamp in a KC outfit ? :-)

[steve B]

I collect printing errors too, and there's several ways a card can be missing a color.
Press out of ink, one color section of the press not engaged, Sheet mis fed through the press (Either partiallly fed, or double feed) Printed through some obstruction like a part of a mangled sheet, small bit of paper etc. Or the sheet just didn't get run through for that color.

Some of those aren't possible with some processes, And I'm not entirely sure which ones were used at what times. For example sheet fed presses vs web fed presses, or one color press vs multi color press. I'd guess that the change to web fed happened around 1992. And at one point I know topps printed sheets that were double what is usually considered a sheet (2 sheets of 132 side by side)

I have a card that was the corner card from a marker sheet. With a sheet fed press a group of sheets , maybe 10 or so are used to adjust the press. The last one is a marker to allow the pres operator to keep the setup sheets separate. Thy usually do this by tearing a corner off. The card I have shows printing in the torn section. I saw tha sheet it came from, and wanted the whole thing but it was just too much for me at the time.




or the plate can be made wrong