Card Identification Forum

in 1991, there were 3 printings of conlons

main difference is no MLB logo on back, but is explained in more detail in blog link below

http://conloncards.blogspot.com/p/the-91-set-was-first-to-be-printed-by.html

I sent in an inaccuracy report for someone to take a look at creating a parallel for 1st and/or  2nd printing

one example at comc showing both versions

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/1991/The_Sporting_News_Conlon_Collection_-_Base/225/Mel_Ott/1982000,p2

fyi

mark

Very important to get your Colon checked

I miss that brand.  Shame TSN ended it after 1994.

Yeah I know they had a finite amount of material to work with, but that (and Ted Williams' brand) were pretty much right at that dawn of the big companies producing nostalga based sets.

To say nothing about being a great resource for getting cheap cards of many 1910s-1940s stars and middle of the road players for various hobby projects.

How about this Colon?

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/1175/col/1/yea/0/Bartolo-Colon?sTeam=&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand=

I think he's been around so long Conlon took his photo! 

right, just watch out for auto correct if you reply to this thread on your phone.

a fellow in another group I am in was replying to a message about these and his phone auto corrected to CONDOMS

very funny, although juvenile humor!

mark

Try looking up players Christian or Jason Peter.  You get some weird sites at times.

I have a 91 factory set and a 92 factory set with 4 gold cards and maybe an Autograph card.  Is it worth opening.  Odds are not in my favor I know.

the factory in 91 were of the most common 3rd printing (per the blog link above)

opening/not opening factory sets is a wider topic that each collector has to answer for themselves (entertainment/enjoyment of looking at them vs perceived value of sealed set)

mark

Ahh, gotta love the late-80s/early-90s. We've just addressed the 90 Bowman Art Inserts, are now looking at work on (at least) the 88 and 91 Donruss sets (and maybe 90) and now this. Then again, if people are still finding VARs from the 50s then why not...

On the FS topic, I open mine. I'm onw who believes the cards should be seen and enjoyed and not hiding away. Opening them also lets me confirm that I have a complete set. I've opened a few sealed sets over the last year where cards were missing or damaged from all brands. Then there are those that were bricks from the get go. If I didn't open them I would never have known my '01 Topps set was destroyed or that several other sets needed cards replaced because of the UV coating issues.