1962 Post #173B Roberto Clemente [VAR:Blue lines] (Pirates)
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10 Best/Most Interesting Error Cards
I've always loved VARIATIONS but not just errors.
ERRORs are just errors and not corrected.
ERROR VARIATIONS are errors that have been corrected.
Usually onw of the (2) is scarcer than the other,
sometimes even rare.
Here's one person's list of his top "error" cards.. 1990 Topps Frank Thomas NO NAME 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken F..K FACE 1989 Score Paul Gibson CROTCH GRAB 2006 Topps Alex Gordon NOT SUPPOSED TO EXIST 1987 Donruss Opening Day Barry Bonds PICTURES JOHNNY RAY T206 Sherry Magee MISSPELLED MAGIE 1985 Topps Gary Pettis YOUNGER BROTHER LYNN 1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy REVERSED IMAGE 1990 Pacific Jim Nettles "A--HOLE" BAT 1988 Topps Al Leiter WRONG PLAYERSomeone else had several of the above plus: 1969 Topps Mickey Mantle (Mantle in White Letters) 1952 Topps Johnny Sain-Paige Bio 1948 Leaf Gene Hermansk (misspelled) 1977 Star Wars C-3PO #207 PE.IS 1954 Bowman Emlen Tunnell (misspelled with Tunnel) Sam Vincent 1990-91 Hoops #223 (Jordan wearing jersey #12) 1981 Fleer Graig Nettles (Craig on the back)First couple of "Variations" that popped into my head: 1958 Topps Hank Aaron & Roberto Clemente [YELLOW LETTERs] 1966 Topps Don Landrum [3 different pants button issues] 1962 Topps #139 [3 different variations - one is Babe Ruth]Click for a list of our variations. |
1981 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) Baseball |
O-Pee-Chee (OPC) based in Ontario Canada, is mostly thought of as the Canadian version of Topps but it actually pre-dates Topps by many years.
In 1933, OPC issued their first sports card set, the V304 Hockey cards and is currently in the tens of thousands. Their first baseball set was issued in 1937. It was similar to the 1934 Goudeys and Batter-Ups and the top player was Joe Dimaggio.
O-Pee-Chee created baseball card sets similar to TOpps from 1965 into the 1990's. At first OPC sets were much smaller than Topps and included just the first few series. Fronts & backs were nearly identical but with a small "Printed in Canada" on the back and the card stock was slightly different.
Baseball being much less popular in Canada, OPC print runs of their early years were between 1% and 10% of Topps making them exceedingly scarce !!!
Starting in 1970, Canadian legislation demanded all items produced in Canada
carry both French & English so OPC baseball cards became bilingual with both
languages included.
Other OPC differences include:
1971, OPC even changed the back design to a much more
interesting back and also offered 14 different card photos not in the Topps set.
1972 OPC included a card of Gil Hodges mentioning his death that was
not a part of the Topps set.
1974 OPC did not include any "Washington Nationals" variations.
1977 the card format remained like Topps but almost 1/3 of the OPC set had
different poses/images than Topps.
In late 1970's, OPC card fronts appeared similar to Topps but sometimes
included traded information saying "Now with XXXX". They were able to do
this as the OPC cards were printed much later into the season.
