I received an email from Jeff asking about a sticker he came across while looking through some 1987 Fleer cards he has from when he was a kid, and this sticker caught his attention:
He wrote asking me if I had any information on this variation since he couldn't find anything about it. I've never seen it before, and have never heard of it.
The back has the Cardinals logo:
While it would be helpful to have a high-resolution scan, from what I can see of the die-cut, it doesn't look like anything has been tampered with like sticking a Yankee logo baseball on a National League base. It certainly appears to be one sticker.
If this variation was released, I'm surprised no one has ever come across it until now. Has anyone ever come across one of these?
I'll have to flip through my Fleer stickers binder this coming week and will let you know if I see it or anything similar as well.
ReplyDeleteI just checked my 87'. The Yankees sticker with the Cardinals back is correct, however as should be mine is American League on front.
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking!
ReplyDeleteThat really would be incredible if that's a new found variation after all this time.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I think it was some kid back in the day just taking one sticker off of one card and putting it on another.
ReplyDeleteI still have a few of those Fleer stickers from the 1980s (and the sticky glue is still like 100%) - you can move one sticker to another without the worse the wear and you can't tell the difference.
That would make the most logical sense, but you should be able to detect where one sticker was placed on top of another, which I wasn't able to see in the picture. I've asked for some additional pics to get a good close up of the die-cut to confirm one sticker wasn't laid on top of another.
ReplyDeleteHope Jeff gets back to you with some better photos. If it is indeed legit, it would have to be pretty darn rare considering it took over 30 years to be discovered.
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