2011 Topps New Variations Discovered

cincykid75 · Jan 21, 2012

Hello,

Last week I posted a scan of two different 2011 Topps Kevin Gregg's that showed a sharp contrast in color.
I have also discovered three more of these variations within the past week.

It appears that Topps went back and 'airbrushed' these for placement in this years factory sets.
The cards in question are #66 R.A. Dickey, #191 Jay Bruce and #272 J.J. Hardy.

Here are the scans:

PujolsCollector · Jan 21, 2012

ronfromfresno · Jan 21, 2012

Maybe I'm missing it but what looks to be air brushed? I see a color difference across both cards, one card appears to be lighter and the other dark. Skin tones are different, the crowd, grass and dirt is different and the dark tones don't "pop" as much. Looks more like the ink was running out or a different color filter was used to print that batch of cards.

cincykid75 · Jan 21, 2012

The 'dirt' areas on the cards appear to have been touched up a bit. The differences really stick out like a sore thumb when you look at them in hand. There's definitely an ink issue with the Bruce card though. Perhaps Topps was just having some production issues. I'm definitely not claiming that these are 'official' variations. I just figured that I would put the info out there for all of you decide.

A_Pharis · Jan 21, 2012

It's not just the dirt.
It's the entire card. It looks like someone went back and altered the exposure to cut down on the "white spots". A side affect just happens to be the dirt taking on a different hue. Not sure if I'd call it a variation as much as possibly swapping something between print runs.

rico08 · Jan 21, 2012

Looks like an unintentional printing variation to me. I wouldn't think twice about calling them both "common."

hofmichael · Jan 21, 2012

It just seems like the cards on the left were printed when the ink levels were very low.

BBCgalaxee · Jan 21, 2012

I think theres a cropping variation on the hardy too

A_Pharis · Jan 21, 2012

BBCgalaxee said:
I think theres a cropping variation on the hardy too

It definitely looks rotated slightly or something. Nice catch.

WoundedDuck · Jan 21, 2012

Pretty neat catch IMO. Common or not, if Upton had a variation like this, I'd pick it up and I'd bet other player collectors would as well if they noticed this with their guy.

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