1990 Upper Deck errors

ReggieCleveland

Curious about peoples' thoughts on the difficulty of some of the 1990 Upper Deck errors in their baseball set. I know the Mike Witt is extremely difficult and the checklist black box is even tougher, but what about the others? Are there any other errors that are particularly rare?

54a Ben McDonald Orioles logo on front

54b Ben McDonald Star Rookie logo on front

54c Ben McDonald Blank circle on front *UNCONFIRMED*

60a Orioles TC Jamie Weston

60b Orioles TC Mickey Weston

79a White Sox TC clipped 7 in 79 on back

79b White Sox TC fully-printed 79 on back


89a Jim Gott Rick Reed photo on front, close-up

89b Jim Gott Gott photo on front, pitching

101-199a Copyright missing on back

101-199b Copyright included on back

117a Kevin Mitchell 100 career HRs

117b Kevin Mitchell 99 career HRs

225a Ozzie Smith SS position short, thicker font

225b Ozzie Smith SS position taller, thin font (normal 90 UD font)

266a Cal Ripken Jr. SS position printed lower in box

266b Cal Ripken Jr. SS position centered in box

478a Scott Garrelts Bill Bathe photo on front

478b Scott Garrelts Garrelts photo on front

562a Jeff Innis Dave West photo on front

562b Jeff Innis Innis photo on front

597a Andy McGaffigan Rich Thompson photo on front

597b Andy McGaffigan McGaffigan photo on front

683a Jamie Weston

683b Mickey Weston

700a Checklist Jamie Weston

700b Checklist Mickey Weston

702a Mike Witt with black box on back

702b Rookie Threats

713a Scott Ruskin full P in upper-left corner

713b Scott Ruskin clipped P in upper-left corner

719a Pete O’Brien clipped F in First Base on back

719b Pete O’Brien complete F in First Base on back

734a Nolan Ryan no trade stripe on front

734b Nolan Ryan 300th win stripe on front

738a Greg Smith F in Infield is clipped on back

738b Greg Smith F in Infield is clipped on back

743a Mark Garnder black line over copyright on back

743b Mark Gardner line removed from copyright area

749a Oil Can Boyd 2 breaks in stat line on back

749b Oil Can Boyd 1 break in stat line on back

749c Oil Can Boyd solid stat line on back

756a Sandy Alomar Jr “C” shifted to left

756b Sandy Alomar Jr “C” centered

757a Alex Sanchez “P” shifted to the left

757b Alex Sanchez “P” centered

759a Stan Belinda “P” shifted to the left

759b Stan Belinda “P” centered

760a Jim Presley “3B” shifted to the left

760b Jim Presley “3B” centered

777a Keith Hernandez incomplete copyright line on back

777b Keith Hernandez correctly printed copyright line on back

796a Sam Horn “DH” shifted to the left

796b Sam Horn “DH” centered

797a Randy Myers “P” shifted to the left

797b Randy Myers “P” centered

798a Chris James “OF” shifted to the left

798b Chris James “OF” centered

799a Bill Gullickson “P” shifted to the left

799b Bill Gullickson “P” centered

800a Checklist Mike Witt #702 with black box on back *UNCONFIRMED*

800b Checklist double-printed copyright on back

800c Checklist correctly-printed copyright on back

ETA: stole this checklist from junkwaxgems

LarkinCollector

Not sure on most of these as I haven't tried to put together a master set of this yet, but my experience on the no copyrights is about 3% have the error.

lahmejoon

I remember reading an article not that long ago about the Ben McDonald cards. If I remember it correctly, the article discussed the blank circle as being altered after issue - that someone took an eraser to the logo. I'm sure someone else knows more than I do about it.

ReggieCleveland

<< <i>Not sure on most of these as I haven't tried to put together a master set of this yet, but my experience on the no copyrights is about 3% have the error. >>



Thanks. What kind of sample size are we talking about?

LarkinCollector

About 125 of the #167 Larkin from various lots purchased in the past few years (had 4 no copyrights).

yankeeno7

I know there is also a copyright error on the Ken Griffey Jr too.

itzagoner

here's your guy

LarkinCollector

One more comment, I've seen a fair amount of the Witt Black Boxes for sale over the past 6-8 months or so. I'm not sure what they were at the peak, but $300-350 seems to be the going rate and is still more than I'm willing to pay for one. There have been too many uncut 10 card sheets with this and other errors to get any gauge of how rare this one really is. There's been one on BIN for $375 for quite a while with no takers.

jackstraw

All cards 101 through 199 have the no copyright variation..

jmmiller777

This sounds just as frustrating now as it did back in the day. I still have like 3/4 of a case taking up space.

jacksoncoupage

<< <i>Are there any other errors that are particularly rare?

54c Ben McDonald Blank circle on front *UNCONFIRMED* <---- If a legit variation, by the far the rarest of 1990 UD errors and among rarest modern errors.

702a Mike Witt with black box on back

713a Scott Ruskin full P in upper-left corner

743a Mark Garnder black line over copyright on back

756a Sandy Alomar Jr “C” shifted to left

757a Alex Sanchez “P” shifted to the left

759a Stan Belinda “P” shifted to the left

760a Jim Presley “3B” shifted to the left

777a Keith Hernandez incomplete copyright line on back

796a Sam Horn “DH” shifted to the left

797a Randy Myers “P” shifted to the left

798a Chris James “OF” shifted to the left

799a Bill Gullickson “P” shifted to the left

800a Checklist Mike Witt #702 with black box on back *UNCONFIRMED*

ETA: stole this checklist from junkwaxgems >>



NOTE: The shifted position variations are new discoveries believed to be changed over with the Witt error. They show up on ebay from time to time but are almost exclusively from one seller who broke a palette of high series cases and pulled several Witts (hence the saturation over the last two years).

bronnerea

bronnerea

I would also add the corrected version of the Kevin Mitchell card as rare. In fact, of everything listed here that is not UNCONFIRMED, that is the only one I have never seen. Can anyone confirm that the Mitchell card was corrected?

richtree

FYI -- I saw a black box #800 checklist sell on ebay not long ago...not sure if its real, but it sold..

LarkinCollector

Does anyone know why PSA doesn't recognize the No Copyright errors? I couldn't find any notated as such in the Pop report.