E90-3 Revisited (SCD Checklist adjustment)

[brianp-beme]

Here is my offering. I vote for mentioning in the SCD description the color variations that have been seen, but not include them in the actual listing. I also have a rather beat-up Tinker that is somewhere between green and blue, but the scan came up looking very dark green, so didn't include it.


Brian

[shammus]

lol...how sad is this.... Rob you posted my own card before me. I've been meaning to get that blue Payne up there for about a week now.... But anyway, that was going to be my contribution to this thread. I think that I might have a Hahn around somewhere too but those are my only two e90-3s at the present time....

[caramelcard]

Oh that's your blue payne now?

Great card! Hope it's ok that i posted it. I'd say most likely one of a kind card.

What do you think about the checklist Brian? You have loads of experience with this set.

[shammus]

Hey Rob!

Absolutely....like I was saying...I was planning on sharing that card anyway.

I don't agree with the way they've been handling the checklist for this set. I believe the checklist should be returned to it's original 20-card state. I think that when you make additional entries to a set it should be for "intended" variations. Additional entries for printing errors that are not actual variations on the cards is a mistake in my humble opinion. The fact that many of these errors only have one known example makes their inclusion on the checklist all the more silly.

So does this mean SCD removed the mention of the "Hofnlan" error card from it's checklist? That is another example of an error that has cropped up in recent years.

In each of the errors that I've seen, I really can't verify that more than one exists in any of these instances. So all of them have a high likelihood of being unique cards. Here is a quick list of what I've seen.....

1. The blue Tinker. Out of this list, this one seems to be the more likely to have a second example. I can't verify it though and the only one I can specifically recall right now is the one in Rob's collection

2. Grey Dougherty. Never heard of a second variation other than the one Scott has

3. Blue Smith. A really nice, bright blue SGC 30 Smith was sold on Ebay around a year ago I think. Sharp card....went for over $1100 if I recall

4. The Hofnlan caption - Freak printing error where I believe the letter "m" on the printing press actually broke to create a character that looks like an "nl" instead of an "m"

5. Blue Payne - This one's with me. Another that I've not seen more than one example of. Pretty rough example but neat none-the-less!

[barrysloate]

Hi Robert- sorry I took so long to respond, I forgot I posted here. The 1949 Bowman set has a number of cards that have gray backgrounds. They are generally cards that should have had a pastel background but missed at least one color pass.

[tedzan]

Here some are some of the ones you are referring to. Color errors that did not get their final pastel color pass.
I have about 60 of these color error cards from the late 1940's Bowman sets.







TED Z

[big-six]

My bad guy's I need to update my set registry.