1972-73 Topps Basketball Forum

Was looking at a card from this set and noticed an imperfection between the picture and the background.  It is very faint but looks almost as if someone traced around the picture.  Looking for some help from the community that have cards from this set to see if it was a printing feature or previous owner embellishment.  Thanks!!!

It is probably just the early 1970s poor photo editing. Could also be the effect of the "green screen" technology of the day to separate the player's image from the plain backdrop they used. If they didn't photograph in front of a special blue or green screen they probably used just a plain white backdrop.

We would need to see the specific card you are talking about and compare it to other scans of the same card to know for certain if it was part of the printing process or as you said a previous owner embelishment.

Without seeing it, it sounds like it may just be out of register. It's not common anymore but is pretty common in the 70s and older. 

Here's Tim's image....thoughts?