New pickup from a couple months ago. Another Circle Scribble (CS3) saw-cut example - but with a twist.
I have always believed CS3s and CS4 are basically the same but with different levels of blank ink coverage on the knob. This new card has a cut that matches a CS4 I've known about for nearly 20 years. Same cut - just more or less ink on the knob.
Looking at a full uncut 132 card Black Box only sheet, there are a few 'print alignment' marks on the middle row of the sheet. Here are a couple examples of mostly centered BBox cards that must have been located in the middle of those sheets - each displaying one or two horizontal print alignment marks. The horizontal marks can also be found on the top of off centered cards from the row beneath. Cheap fun. Anything related to the FF!
Recent 'FF Art' additions from late 2024. Love seeing all of these new creations! Check out their work!
1) From hardlyhardart on Instagram. Pink, Gold Foil version. 10 made but not individually numbered.
2) From reelbraddavis on Instagram. Numbered to 25 on the back.
Announced late last month by Topps - The 2024 Jackson Holliday 1/1 Fun Face Bat knob has been pulled. The Fun Face was a great idea and I'm glad Topps included a few dual autos of Ripken and Holliday together. Anything and Everything related to the FF!
FAKE ALERT! I knew this would happen eventually. Dishonest sellers are creating and moving Black Box corrected commons with "saw-cuts". Especially now that grading company SGC began 'authenticating' '89 Ripken "saw-cut" cards in 2024.
To date, I have only ever seen ONE Black Box card with a factory authentic saw-cut. ONE. I've handled hundreds and hundreds of other 'real' saw-cut / slits and can tell these new creations are indeed - FAKE. Scammers are taking $1 common cards and adding a vertical cut and selling these for 10-200x more. Not to mention the fakes that have already been 'authenticated' by SGC. I have seen at least one of these already. There will be more to come. Buyer beware!
New Pickup late 2024. I've been looking for one of these for years! Black Box (square edge) version on a vertical strip w/ the color bar attached at the bottom. There are four main Black Box varieties - Square edge, Rounded Edge, Rounded Edge w/ Jagged upper white line and the Rounded edge Glossy/Tin. Cheap fun addition!
I haven't owned a 1989 Fleer Jeff Treadway "w/ Target" version in over 20 years. That changed last week with this most recent pickup. I like the addition of two horizontal print alignment marks on the upper corners. Something different! Off centered top to bottom (in this example) is a plus!
The 'Target' is a print registration or alignment mark used for one of the colors (blue/cyan) in the process. Obviously, something got messed up and the symbol wasn't removed before printing. Probably just a quality control issue at Fleer (surprise!). These 'error' cards were actually a mid to late print run defect and not an early 'error' issue - like the FF or Randy Johnson cards.
