An Intro to Errors/Variations

The late 1980s and early 1990s over production nearly killed the card industry, but it also brought about interesting errors and variations. Since they're cheap pick-ups, and most are easy to spot and catalog, I love looking for these. For example check out these 1988 Donruss.

Ignore the conditions of the cards, complete-ists can't be choosers. =). Apparently in the same year, the changed the pattern orientations for retail(whether wax, cello, etc) and the factory sets.

Another retail/factory variation, 1991 Donruss, and I'm not even including the back variation of the one on the left. Donruss seemed to love to tinker with borders. Unlike the 1988 edition, these backs are noticeably lighter/darker.

Cutting Donruss some slack for a minute, here's 1991(a good year for these kind of errors/variations) Upper Deck's entry. That's right, three separate hologram designs - 1991 Upper Deck, 1990 Upper Deck, and strangely 1991 Upper Deck Hockey...

More to come I'm sure, I love these cheap pickups!