I ran across a rainbow of printing errors, courtesy of Topps.
These 1989 Rookies cards came with a little bonus streak of colored foil. Steve Wilson has a green strip across his chest.
Gregg Olson has a blue strip across his name.
This is what the Gregg Olson is supposed to look like. See, no foil strip anywhere. I don't know how those could have gotten on the cards accidentally.
Last, but not least is Mr. Bob Milacki. He has a pinkish/purple/red strip across his name. I know printing errors are fairly common, but these cards aren't supposed to have any foil on them so I don't understand how this one happened.
Any ideas?
I thought that I remembered someone having a test sheet of foil rookies for sale on ebay. When I looked, there is a seller, Kruk Cards, that has a sheet of 1990 Rookies test foil cards for sale. The sheet looks like the Bob Milacki card above. This might answer your question. Putting a link to the item in their ebay store.
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Topps did some tests with foil stamping on this set - it's in the Standard Catalog I have at home. Kind of neat items to have!
ReplyDeleteNever seen anything like these before. Very interesting!
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