Vending mark on 1959 Topps card

Kurtman9

Thanks to Steve (PurelyPSA) for educating me on this. I recently won this card raw on ebay. It's NMMT all the way but I became dissappointed upon seeing a wierd looking stamped symbol on the reverse. Come to find out this apparently was a vending mark placed on the card by Topps. When a kid got one of these out of a vending machine, he could turn it into the shop owner for an additional prize. It is pretty rare from what I understand, albeit unsightly to some. I am going to send the card to PSA with a note. Hopefully they will not give it an MK qualifier. This phenomenon was discussed here a couple years ago in this thread:
Vending mark thread

FavreFan1971

Hope they catch it. I would call ahead of time to make sure.

80sJunkie

thats some good info to know thanks for sharing

goose3

VERY interesting......

Never seen that before.

alnavman

What's the MK qualifier??? I've heard of miscut....is that what MK stands for?? IT would be a shame to penalize a card due to something that was from the factory.

qualitycards

MC = miscust
MK = mark

alnavman

thanks, never got an MK so it was new to me....

SportsModerator

The stamp was NOT placed on the back of the cards by Topps but by the person owning/operating the vending machine. It should receive the MK qualifier every time.

goose3

nonetheless Supreme Party Pooper, it is still a very interesting card.

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>nonetheless Supreme Party Pooper, it is still a very interesting card. >>

fiveniner

Been buying 59s for over 25yrs and never have come across one of those.Intresting indeed.

digicat

How common was it for folks with the vending machines to do this? I notice some consistancy with the stamp used. Was the physical stamp itself offered by Topps to it's vendors?

digicat

This card has the same sort of stamp mark as the White Sox card at the top of this post. I've seen some others around too...

estang

Very interesting. That's a lot of effort to put that mark on by a vendor and not Topps. I wonder how enforced/encouraged that process was by Topps. I don't understand the relevance to the stamp.

Edited to add: Oh, you'd get a prize if you got one. Kind of like getting the indian on the wrapper of a Tootsie Pop --- not that I believe you could actually turn it in for something. Maybe that is my 1st exposure to urban legend.

cardbender

Interesting stuff. I've never heard or seen that either.

Kurt,
Nice White Sox card by the way.

Looks like the Cepeda card posted is your answer.

Regards,
Rich