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Top 25 Errors / Variations of all time....

richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭
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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”
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    1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

    Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987963/1951-wheaties-premium-photos-set-registry#latest

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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    off to a great start

    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”
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    TiborTibor Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How bout the Billy Ripken FF error.

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    TiborTibor Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There's several 1988 Topps errors as well

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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    @Tibor said:
    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!

    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”
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    TiborTibor Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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    DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox

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    JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,233 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Frank Thomas NNOF.

    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
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    maddux69maddux69 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy Reverse Negative
    1958 Topps Last name in yellow Hank Aaron
    1987 Donruss Opening Day Bary Bonds Johnny Ray pictured

    Jason

    eBay Store


    Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set
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    daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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    daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @richtree said:

    I like to think of if an impactful, memorable, or with some importance rather than the rarest or most valuable......

    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.

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    baz518baz518 Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2022 7:45PM

    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.

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    miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

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    junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 239 ✭✭✭

    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

    fka jacksoncoupage, comc.com: junkwaxgems, ebay: junkwaxgems
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    mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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...

    mint_only_pls
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    WillymacWillymac Posts: 204 ✭✭✭

    1989 UD Griffey eyelash (still watching this one)

    1990 UD Griffey missing copyright etc

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    GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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    balco758balco758 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not an error but I went crazy first time I pulled an 81 Fleer
    Fernand Valenzuela

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    craig44craig44 Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

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    craig44craig44 Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also the 1982 "blackless" variations.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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    craig44craig44 Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    also numerous errors in 1990 Pro Set football

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    thanks so far, def helping me....

    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”
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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    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 ?

    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”
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    olb31olb31 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

    Work hard and you will succeed!!
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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:
    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 ?

    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”
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    PROMETHIUS88PROMETHIUS88 Posts: 2,826 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can't even have the list without the 65 Topps Namath "butterfly"

    Promethius881969@yahoo.com
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    jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1990 Donruss Juan Gonzalez reverse negative.
    1989 Fleer Jeff Treadway Target error.

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    miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 14, 2022 11:08AM

    1969 OPC Gordie Howe w/ vs. w/o card no.

    1982 Fleer Lee Smith reversed Cubs logo

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    slimiesslimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1990 donruss Juan Gonzalez reverse negative

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    junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 239 ✭✭✭

    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

    fka jacksoncoupage, comc.com: junkwaxgems, ebay: junkwaxgems
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    GreenSneakersGreenSneakers Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭

    I would have thought the T206 "Magie" would have been at the top of the list if we were going for all-time errors.

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    olb31olb31 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

    Work hard and you will succeed!!
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    jamesryanbelljamesryanbell Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭

    What about the '82 Fleer Littlefield Reverse Negative, and '89 UD Murphy Reverse negative?

    -- Ryan Bell
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    jamesryanbelljamesryanbell Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭

    ...and the '87 Donruss Opening Day Bonds/Ray error? That was HUGE back in the day.

    -- Ryan Bell
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    craig44craig44 Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    how did i forget the 90 juan gone errors. I must be slipping

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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    Nathaniel1960Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Magee / Magie T-206

    Gene Bakep 1957 Topps

    Bob Bruce Rbaves 1967 Topps

    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
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    junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 239 ✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:
    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.

    Does not exist.

    fka jacksoncoupage, comc.com: junkwaxgems, ebay: junkwaxgems
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    junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 239 ✭✭✭

    @jamesryanbell said:
    What about the '82 Fleer Littlefield Reverse Negative, and '89 UD Murphy Reverse negative?

    Great examples of notorious error cards!

    fka jacksoncoupage, comc.com: junkwaxgems, ebay: junkwaxgems
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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    this is helping so much for a top 100 list. hard part will be ordering them at some point...

    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”
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    Nathaniel1960Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    BTW. Ken Hubbs pictured on a Dick Ellsworth card 3 years post Morten is a pretty big screw up.

    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
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    WFC2008WFC2008 Posts: 96 ✭✭

    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.

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    richtreerichtree Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭

    @WFC2008 said:
    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.

    @WFC2008 said:
    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!

    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”
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    WillymacWillymac Posts: 204 ✭✭✭

    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

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    WillymacWillymac Posts: 204 ✭✭✭

    And for those of you saying andruw Jones isn’t in hof yet - I know - talk to me in Jan ;-)

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    olb31olb31 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @junkwaxgems said:

    @olb31 said:
    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.

    Does not exist.

    What does not exist?

    Work hard and you will succeed!!
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    STLKabongSTLKabong Posts: 64 ✭✭✭

    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

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    junkwaxgemsjunkwaxgems Posts: 239 ✭✭✭

    @olb31 said:

    @junkwaxgems said:

    @olb31 said:
    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.

    Does not exist.

    What does not exist?

    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.

    fka jacksoncoupage, comc.com: junkwaxgems, ebay: junkwaxgems
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    1all1all Posts: 507 ✭✭✭

    This one always cracks me up.......

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    DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭

    "The Sipe market is ridiculous right now"
    CDsNuts, 1/9/15
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