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Mickey58'
Posts: 114
Joined: Mar 2012
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| Saturday, August 22, 2015 11:27 AM | |
Other than the obvious refractor cards green, orange, gold, blue, red, purple & prism which are easy to pick up by sight. However is it me or do the base cards look nearly identical as the base refractor cards which I cannot tell apart. I know base refractors have a hue of rainbow to them but so do the base cards any tips. Topps should have added at least letter identification on the back for base refractors because I sure cannot tell them apart.
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Set builder, non trader, PSA slabs, for the kids. |
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,947
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Saturday, August 22, 2015 1:46 PM | |
Recent ones do have "REFRACTOR" right under the card number.
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Chris Lovati
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Joined: Jul 2015
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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| Sunday, August 30, 2015 6:50 PM | |
Sometimes I put them on the table under bright light and look from a distance. They're usually extremely obvious that way.
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sandyrusty
Posts: 4,652
Joined: Dec 2014
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 3:51 AM | |
Ever since Topps advertised refractors, I have found this a problem. One of the worst ideas any card company ever came up with. It is one of my pet peeves in card manufacturing. I was happy when they started actually marking the Refractors with "Refractor". In the 1994 set, I still don't know if I have any refractors.
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Lea DeFoote
Posts: 1,533
Joined: Jul 2012
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 7:42 AM | |
I don't know about this specific set, but on some sets with subtle differences in the foil treatment I find it easier to see the difference when viewing the card in sunlight or in fluorescent light.
Sometimes the difference can be readily apparent in a scan even though they're not when the card is viewed directly.
-Tom
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,512
Joined: Aug 2011
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,464
Joined: Oct 2014
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 12:32 PM | |
Billy, could you shrink the photo, its pushing the forum to the right and being blocked by the ads.
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,512
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 12:39 PM | |
I'm not sure how to fix that. First time I've ever posted a photo into the forum here. If I mess with it on my website (where I linked it from) I will lose the upload date and the number of times it's been viewed (I uploaded it in 2014) so I don't want to do that.
I think in the future I will just put a link, if I can figure out how.
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,464
Joined: Oct 2014
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| Monday, August 31, 2015 12:48 PM | |
Edit post, click on the photo, resizing dots will appear on the corners of photo, click and drag a dot toward the center of the photo to resize it
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