Like watching a train wreck....

MorrellMan

Check out this auction. I'm not familiar with this issue so I could be wrong, but look near the bottom of the back scans - I wonder what has been whited out?

onlyanumber

It does look like someone took an eraser to those cards...

XanaduNow

Their feedback doesn't look that bad for the past year. I wonder if someone (the seller or a previous owner?) actually tried to erase a pencil marking or something? Although, the more I think about it, both of the markings are in the exact same spot with roughly the exact same height and width. With both of them relatively centered in the card it does seem more like a manufacturer's printing on the card has been removed.

I'd actually feel a lot better if the seller had mentioned it and had a reasonable explanation instead of assuming the word REPRINT has been removed.

Arthur

baseballfanatic

Reminds me of the time someone was listing Home Run Derby cards as original and you could clearly see where someone had erased the 1988 CCC reprint from along the right side of all the cards.....

baseballfanatic

I dont know if they ever reprinted c46's. Maybe it was something where someone wrote their name on the card and someone tried to erase it...

XanaduNow

Baseballfanatic,

That's what I originally thought but the location of the erasures seems more like a designed printing than where someone would write their name. In my experience, the name writings usually are in large print (to announce the ownership) and in a very unorthodox location. They just seem too perfectly centered and minimally invasive (the original markings, not the erasures ).

Then again, these are Canadian issues and those Canucks are a nice and neat group of people.

Arthur

stown

<< <i>It does look like someone took an eraser to those cards... >>



Same to me. Looks whiteish (if that's a word) on the bottom half.

baseballfanatic

This reminds me of the advantages of being the oldest brother. When we were kids, I had the luxury of picking through my younger brothers cards to fill the spots I needed on my checklists. We always got a box or two of cards for Christmas, and this particular year we each got two boxes of Topps basketball. I was a big Maravich fan, and since this was Petes first year, I picked all the Maravich cards out of my brothers stacks plus a few others which I wasnt able to pull out of my boxes. Time goes by, and my brother notices his stack is about an inch shorter than mine on the dresser. He then begins whining "hey that was mine" and "that one isnt yours". Since Im the oldest, I dont budge. So my brother decides so I dont take anymore of his cards he puts a red "R" on the upper corner of his cards. Somewhere floating around out there is a bunch of 1970 Topps Basketball with red "R"s on the back. Just to be on the safe side, he decided to go back and do all of his cards so I wouldnt take them.

It isnt about pencil. It isnt about erasing. But it just kinda shows how things like this can appear on cards sometimes......

jimq112

A little photoshopping says there's something there. Nothing added, some colors removed

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Stone193

Hi Mark

Good eye! I don't think I would have noticed that?

The area of "removal" is too uniform IMO to be erased pencil - a name e.g. - I think someone removed the "reprint" info?

Good job Jim!

The seller may be clueless or maybe not?
mike