1981 Fleer Baseball Forum

There are two cards listed here, an a and b.  It says error small hand on back, and the other says no hand.....what the hell are they talking about!?  Which one do I have?  Any help would be great. 

Thanks all

First, PSA refers to these variations as "fingers".  They are just debris that got on the printing plates. There are a few throughout the set.  Personally, I think it's ridiculous that they got called a variation.  But, who am I...

What the..... I saw that as I was examining and thought......nawwww that can't be the difference, that in no way resembles a "hand" I did google and see something about "finger" but again......yeah.  Thanks for the help! Apparantly I have a fingerless worthless card. :)

Yeah, who came up with "hand"?  Even "finger" is a stretch.

 Thanks for the idea.   I have some cards with creases which I will now sell on Ebay as "variations".   So I guess all the wax stained cards I have can also be listed as variations.    I also have some with what I call "printer's dimples", more variations, I guess.    Crap on a card is not a variation.

Right on, NJDevils. Absolutely absurd. Who was the "King of the Card World" that decided this was a variation? I guess we'll have to go back and add about a billion variations to every vintage set in the database.

NJDevils wrote:  Thanks for the idea.   I have some cards with creases which I will now sell on Ebay as "variations".   So I guess all the wax stained cards I have can also be listed as variations.    I also have some with what I call "printer's dimples", more variations, I guess.    Crap on a card is not a variation.

You may have also just answered a question from June 2013.  I immediately remembered this old forum post when I read about these fingers.  I wonder if that explains the mystery B version of this Jefferson card.  (A was Pirates back, C was Blue Jays back).  Could B have been fingers too, like Matthews?

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/84/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=216#1149

IIRC, the "finger" was on the fronts of the cards. Of course, this was 35 years ago, and my memory may be a little faulty.

Your memory isn't too bad...lol. Some cards had the "hand/finger" on the front and some were on the back (see prior post).

vrooomed wrote: IIRC, the "finger" was on the fronts of the cards. Of course, this was 35 years ago, and my memory may be a little faulty.