Top 25 Errors / Variations of all time....
richtree
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Hey all I have been making a list of top 100 error/variations of all time......for trading cards --- I feel like I am missing a bunch because there is just so many to organize. Also, I wasn't a collector pre 1980 for many, many years while maybe some of you went through those years in real time.....
I was wondering if you could help name some of what you would put on your list.....
I like to think of if an impactful, memorable, or with some importance rather than the rarest or most valuable......
thanks for any replies with context...
rich
Buying:
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
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This is one of my favorites because the original design was yellow…
…but a printing error produced White Letter variations…
1969 Topps #500 Mickey Mantle - Last Name in White
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off to a great start
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
How bout the Billy Ripken FF error.
There's several 1988 Topps errors as well
Ripken was a good one , will make the list for sure --- not looking for "several" just the worthy -- lol!
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
Most of the 88 Topps were corrected. Like the Ripken. Rodriguez card in 69 Topps went uncorrected. There's a Braves pitcher in 90 Donruss wrong photo, later corrected.
C-3PO “golden rod”
1990 pro set Fred Marion “belt”
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox
Frank Thomas NNOF.
1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy Reverse Negative
1958 Topps Last name in yellow Hank Aaron
1987 Donruss Opening Day Bary Bonds Johnny Ray pictured
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Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set
Ripken
Murphy
Nettles
Maybe 1982 Fleer Littlefield
Absolutely none of the modern errors which include a special code that tells you it's an error.
Sounds like UERs are very welcome here. Not scarce or valuable, but the 1969 Rodriguez was pretty legendary before the error "craze" caught on. For some reason the 1957 Rev Neg Aaron never seemed to.
Love the 80/81 "Jams" Silas errors. Were definitely corrected early but still are barely documented, won't be recognized by PSA and carry little premium.
This was a big deal back in the day :-):
Some junk-wax hockey:
1989 Topps Randy Cunneyworth w/ Pittsburgh Penguins on Front
1990 Pro Set Paul Gillis Bloody Nose
1991 OPC Premier Konstantinov w/ Lidstrom Photo on Back
Personal favorites:
1978 Topps Bump Wills Circle Variations
1980 Topps Missing Names (Pryor, Squires)
1982 Fleer Darrell Jackson No Logo/Speck Logo Variations
1988 Topps Keith Comstock Yellow Name
1988 Topps Offer Card "Cards Not Included" Text on Front
1989 Fleer Randy Johnson Variations
1989 Topps Tony Oliva TBC Variations
1990 Fleer Dave Martinez Yellow '90
1990 Upper Deck Ben McDonald Orioles
1990 Upper Deck Checklist w/ Witt & Black Box
1990 Upper Deck Mike Witt (702)
1990 Upper Deck Hi# Position Shift Variations
1991 Bowman Scott Lusader Sign Variations
1991 Topps Robin Ventura Variations
1993 Pacific Rob Maurer Photo Error
1990 Pro Set Fred Marion
1990 Pro Set Dexter Manley
1990 Pro Set No Bio Variations (Manley, Lofton, et al)
1991 Action Packed Withdrawls (Kelly, J. Johnson, et al)
1991 Bowman Dan McGwire/Jesse Campbell Errors
1991 Pro Set Chuck Knox Cyan Logo
I would nominate a 1957 Hank Aaron in which Topps blundered the negative showing Hammerin Hank batting left-handed in what otherwise would have been his most beautiful card (IMHO) wearing a classic Braves uniform in a full length batting pose.
Oh well...an easy fix is to hold up the card into the mirror! Very nice then...
1989 UD Griffey eyelash (still watching this one)
1990 UD Griffey missing copyright etc
This is #1
The 1970 opc hockey Black Bottom Prints encompass all the All Star cards from that set, and not just one player.
On top of that it is the most rare card to find according to the PSA population report.
Bobby Orr has two 8’s, two 9’s with no 7’s or 10’s. No other OPC Orr card compares to this scarcity. The other All Stars the same.
Not an error but I went crazy first time I pulled an 81 Fleer
Fernand Valenzuela
1985 Donruss Seaver/Bannister error.
There are several 1991 topps errors. Whitten being the most famous I believe
1958 Herrera
1990 nnof should be the most important. RC of popular HOF player on Topps card and very rare.
There is an uncorrected error on the 1968 Ryan rookie where the word sensational is misspelled.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Also the 1982 "blackless" variations.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
also numerous errors in 1990 Pro Set football
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
thanks so far, def helping me....
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
also, for Garbage Pail Kids is Semi Colon the most famous ? I know Atom Bomb was discussed, but I think their was one clear as the most known ? anyone ?
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
1997 Bowman missing foil. I have several of these of different players. But hard to find overall, especially the stars.
1954 and 1956 baseball white and gray backs
1977 basketball green and gray backs
1981 opc baseball white and gray backs
Theses seem tough -- not sure if they make the Top 100 -- maybe the baseball backs could possibly as a group ?
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
You can't even have the list without the 65 Topps Namath "butterfly"
1990 Donruss Juan Gonzalez reverse negative.
1989 Fleer Jeff Treadway Target error.
1969 OPC Gordie Howe w/ vs. w/o card no.
1982 Fleer Lee Smith reversed Cubs logo
1990 donruss Juan Gonzalez reverse negative
Some strange errors in this thread. Maybe Rich can further define what exactly he's seeking here.
Most well-known to the general hobby? 90 D JuanGone, 90 D Glavine, 89 F Ripken, 88 T Leiter...etc
Rarest of all, period? 90 PS Manley, 90 UD Witt/Checklist, 93 P Maurer...etc
Most elusive but not known hobby-wide? 91 T J Morgan 87, 89 F Checklists...etc
Cool print flaws? 80 T Pryor, 89 UD Griffey, 90 T Thomas, 90 T King, 82 T Blackless...etc
I would have thought the T206 "Magie" would have been at the top of the list if we were going for all-time errors.
1990 Donruss has about 250 errors/corrections/variations, maybe more.
Juan, since it's rookie, has some appeal.
1990 Topps Ken Griffey JR, blood/scab on arm and no blood/scab on arm seems like a good one to me.
Randy Johnson 1989 Fleer is interesting.
if Frank is appealing not sure why the 1997 Bowman isn't. The missing foil means no name. Beltre and Halladay rookies, Jeter in there also.
What about the '82 Fleer Littlefield Reverse Negative, and '89 UD Murphy Reverse negative?
...and the '87 Donruss Opening Day Bonds/Ray error? That was HUGE back in the day.
how did i forget the 90 juan gone errors. I must be slipping
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Magee / Magie T-206
Gene Bakep 1957 Topps
Bob Bruce Rbaves 1967 Topps
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
Does not exist.
Great examples of notorious error cards!
this is helping so much for a top 100 list. hard part will be ordering them at some point...
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
BTW. Ken Hubbs pictured on a Dick Ellsworth card 3 years post Morten is a pretty big screw up.
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
In reference to your Garbage Pail Kids question, while there are a lot of errors the Semi- ColonI believe many consider Semi-Colon to be the most sought after one.
One of the most confusing how did this even get made error to me, is the 1991-92 ProSet Super Stars MusiCards Card #166 of Dread Zeppelin. Can't post the pic of the error card due to a member's shorts not concealing what should be concealed. It was corrected later in the run.
thanks!
Topps White Out (silver) letters Alex Gordon
80 Topps Greg Pryor “No Name"
90 ProSet Dexter Manley error
90 Topps Jeff King Yellow back
1958 Topps Pancho Herrera (no“a”)
81 Topps Art Howe (black smear above hat)
91 D A. Hawkins BC-12 “Pitcher”
Along these lines I have said many times the printing errors will end up like coin manufacturing errors and be value too - especially on key players/series/etc
I have an early ichiro with no foil at all / never seen it anywhere before
I have an atomic refractor that is half andruw Jones and have Derek jeter
Like 1/2 and 1/2 has to be darn near unique and to be those 2 hof players - off the charts
And for those of you saying andruw Jones isn’t in hof yet - I know - talk to me in Jan ;-)
What does not exist?
1979 Topps #509 Mario Mendoza
Shows Maj Leage Total Batting Average as .278 (he wishes) should be .204
The calculation used games played instead of AB's.
My cards on COMC
The bolded part: There is no "corrected" 1990 Topps Griffey without the scab on his arm. Only different ink levels, the oval shape is always there as it is a mark on the plate/negative that was not changed.
This is another example of covid collectors pushing UER cards of stars as rare errors. See also: 1987 Topps Bonds and Sosa "birthdate" error rcs.
This one always cracks me up.......
CDsNuts, 1/9/15