Card Identification Forum

      I really don't like doing this because I usually don't get an answer.

I have this card and it looks like the card pictured in the scan for the subject card except the scan card has the little baseball player pictured in front of the ( 1983 TCMA Ltd - 17 ) on the bottom of the rear of the card. All of the other rear scans for the set do not have this marking.

    Is there another set that my card belongs in, is it a variation or is it one famous Border counterfiets?

I have this card, and another in the same set as well.

neither have the MLB player logo like the card shown.

I would suggest you put in an inaccuracy report so it can be added as a variation.

if you need guidance on how to do that, feel free to ask.

In general, I think TCMA cards have many such instances of minor differences in different printings.

I am working on a TCMA type card collection where I seek one of each of the sets including one from each minor league team they made

there are many folks with deeper knowledge than me on TCMA cards, but I am not surprised at the difference you noted.

thanks, mark

I'm pretty sure Mark nailed it on the head. If you look at this gallery you can see the cards originally had red and white borders, but a later printing made them red blue and black. Usually thou the picture stayed the same but the Bench one here even has a different phot. I agree submit an IR if you don't have the access to add the VAR.

Whoa - Before submitting or adding a VAR, this could be a case where TCMA went back and reprinted the whole set with different colors. TCMA was known to do that - a lot.

I know we have a member or two who know TCMA products inside and out. Please wait for one of them to weigh in before proceeding.

as further info, I talked to a friend that is a much more advanced collector than I am, and he has the entire set in gray back, with no MLB logo (just like the #14 Stan shows on the checklist here)

mark

I would suspect the version with the MLB logo is one of the 1986-1987 collector kit reprints.  That is the only reason I have a copy.

so do we need to make any changes to this set?

or just add info to the notes describing possible differences and not list variations?

mark

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