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1969 PSA 8 #663 Dick Raditz
Nearly $200 and the winning bidder backed up his high bid. That means it would have gone higher if another bidder crossed the $200 barrier. I also was interested in the '69 #111 Johnny Morris which ended up at $76.
I've convinced myself not to go crazy on low pop cards. I've seen far too many start out at insane prices only to drop to $20 or $30 after a few hit the market. Case in point, #40 Mayo Smith. The first few I saw on eBay went for more than $50. I eventually won one at around $35 which ended up getting lost in the mail. I purchased the last one after it went unsold at a $15 opening bid.
Nearly $200 and the winning bidder backed up his high bid. That means it would have gone higher if another bidder crossed the $200 barrier. I also was interested in the '69 #111 Johnny Morris which ended up at $76.
I've convinced myself not to go crazy on low pop cards. I've seen far too many start out at insane prices only to drop to $20 or $30 after a few hit the market. Case in point, #40 Mayo Smith. The first few I saw on eBay went for more than $50. I eventually won one at around $35 which ended up getting lost in the mail. I purchased the last one after it went unsold at a $15 opening bid.
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The 75T Will McEnaney PSA8 was at $202.50 this morning and that bid has since been topped.
Mike
Mike - I've been following that auction based on the other thread. It's amazing how high that card has gone. It's definitely tough though. I just checked my checklist and see that I need to upgrade that one. This after building my set from the best of 6 high grade vending built sets. I may dig it out and submit it anyway as it might be borderline. If I get an 8, I'd have a tough decision of whether to sell it and wait for the prices to come down. No matter how tough that card is, with all the cello and rack packs out there, it can't stay at a population of 2 for long.
I made a scan of mine before submitting it. You can see it here.
Mike
The card is very sharp....however do you think the print dot on the top right will hurt the grade?
Carlo
Mike
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I would sell....there will be another.....
Carlo
Burn circles are VERY common on 75T.
Mike
A "burn circle" is a new one for my vocab. What caused them? Is it the same thing as others refer to a print dot? Thanks.
As in the scan Mike provides, I believe he is referring to "burn circles" as the small white circles that often appear on the 1975 Topps issues. It looks as if the color was bleached out in a little dot, often along the borders or in the picture of the card (ummm, duh, where else would it be...?)
In the example Mike provides, there is a yellowish burn circle on the top right of the "S" in Reds, and there are red circles underneath the "D" and "S" in the black in Reds. There is additionally a small white burn circle in the black shadow of the baseball in the lower right-hand corner of the card.
Though I have not heard the term burn circle before -- it is very similar to print dots and other things that we have seen throughout many of Topps vintage (and modern) issues.
Burn circle
I call it a "fish eye." Seems the ink was slightly wet when the press roller pulled away.
But what do I know? Heck, I can't even grade cards anymore. Must be some latent genetic defect that's manifested itself in my DNA.
We actually refer to this as a "hickie" in the trade believe it or not.
When you run color on a press, it takes four different color plates on the press to make the color.....we call this process color.
You have a black plate on the press which has nothing but the black image....a magneta plate, a cyan plate, and a yellow plate. The mixture of these colors make the color on the final print product.....for example, in the 1975 Topps card with the "hickie", you notice that there is a yellow circle around a little red dot......what is happening here on the press, is there evidently was a little speck of dirt, or speck of some kind that was on the magenta press plate or blanket. Red is made from magenta and yellow.
The magenta plate hits a blanket and leaves the impression of the magneta image.....with this little speck, the blanket didn't take the full impression, but rather the little dirt speck raised a little spot sort of like a tent over this speck......when the magenta then hit the yellow, you were left with this "hickie".
Whenever we see this happening in our pressrun, we have a spray bottle with a fountain solution that we'll give the plate a few squirts....usually this will dislodge the offending speck, and everything is ok....but, if it's bad enough, we have had to stop the press and clean it off.
So, what you end up having, is several hundred or maybe thousand or so of this very same card with this very same print "hickie" in the same spot before the pressmen cleaned it off.
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Awesome post! Thanks for the explanation!