Thought I would cover a few interesting tidbits in this blog.
Nellie Fox Bust Tilts
First of all, long time collector Chisox Tony sends this 1960 Nellie Fox summary of bust tilts. For those of you who don't know what these are, search the early blogs for a complete blog describing them. Basically, my premise is that multiple molds were used for many of the coins. The writing on the front of the coins were not identically aligned to the bust of the player on the coin and so the bottom left point on the bust points to different letters in the different molds.
Tony reports finding 4 different bust tilts for 1960 Fox as shown below.
From left to right the neck is pointing to the T, the TE, the left of the E and the right of the E. Fascinating that these are being reported all for the same color meaning one mold was NOT just used to manuf 1 color. I checked my Fox collection and found an even distribution of the 4 bust tilt variations across my broad spectrum of color variations.
More mis-graded Mantles
A few blogs ago I ranted on a PSA 10 Mantle with missing back rim. Could there possibly be anything worse ? Well to me the following is even worse. This PSA 8 royal blue Mantle still up for sale on EBay has the back rim broken off and sitting on the encapsulated coin. Was this broken off during or after the encapsulation ?? No way to know.....I'd love to have it in my set as a great example of damaged 1960 rims, but the seller turned down my offer of $10.........
