Frank Thomas No Name

crabman

I possess one of the Frank Thomas No Name cards...1990 Topps Rookie card but was refused by Beckects grading service because they claim they had never seen one like mine. They sent it back with a note explaining very little. I've seen some the chain of discussions that surround the printing process and I hate to throw a monkey wrench into all the theories, but my card is a must see by those of you that believe you know what happened. After reading the theories, I wanted to share my card with some of you. First off, the card was pulled from pack in Washington state. I have hung onto it every since. From a distance it looks as if there is no name, but upon close inspection, his name - Frank Thomas can be seen every so slightly. In other words, some ink got through but very very little. Does anybody have a similar version? I will post a picture of it once I get to talk to some of you "experts", so we can all share what may possibly be another monkey into the printing theory.
Thanks.

BunchOBull

We'd love to see a scan if you can share.

BunchOBull

The only variations I've ever seen are NNOFs with blue ink variations (fish eyes) and this one:



I guess the issue here is one of the physics of printing. The issue with the obstruction theory is that an obstruction would still get ink on it and around it's edges, so ink would transfer in a pooling fashion to the print matting. If you look at the accepted NNOF, there is never a pooling of black ink around the area that ink is missing. Plates are made to reject ink in some places and accept ink in others. Where ink is accepted, the ink is transferred to the matting and transferred to the card stock. If ink was not accepted, ink is washed away and is never transferred to the matting.

If an obstruction is the cause, I'm curious if the obstruction occurred during the plate making process or the actual printing process. That's been postulated before. Otherwise, it seems likely an obstruction would have started large and gradually have be worn away, versus started small and gotten larger.

Brick

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There are in addition to the gentleman here many experts on Frank Thomas and his many cards and variations.

CDC4

I thought NNOF Thomas' were found in vending boxes and not in packs?

Does anyone know?

RookieWax

I personally pulled mine from wax packs. Below is a recent link with a claim that their NNOF Thomas came from a set. Link