Jungle Jolteon Error

[quuador]

@ruthlessrain

Shouldn’t the PSA description of the card include a comment on the different border? It seems strange there is literally no comment like it is a standard card

PSA does this all the time. ©1999-2000 Base cards aren’t differentiated, the Event Organizer stamped cards aren’t differentiated, etc. Pretty annoying imho, because now I have a POP-180+ Event Organizer stamp 175/XY-P Pikachu, instead of a POP1.

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As for the Albino-border Jolteon, I’ll quote my thoughts from my Base Pikachu artwork card variations article:

@quuador

Albino misprint:

The card itself and the borders of the WotC cards were usually printed separately. Because of this the card border might be misprinted while the card itself is fine. When the yellow of the card is so fine it turned pinkish or whitish, we refer to them as Albino.
Unfortunately, I’m not 100% convinced an actual Albino print error Base Pikachu exists. I’m not even 100% convinced any Albino misprint exist. Yes, I’ve seen a couple of Albino cards in the past, and I even managed to buy one from eBay; which leads me to the following card:

Sun-discolored Albino misprint:

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As you can see it has the pinkish border as mentioned. However, there are two things to note:

1. At the top right corner of the border it isn’t pinkish, but light yellow instead.
2. The entire card is lighter than usual.
   This has led me to the conclusion that this card simply has been faded by sunlight by overexposing it for a long period of time. Because of this, and the fact that the scarce few other Albino misprints I’ve seen also had a completely lighter card instead of just the border, I personally think there aren’t any actual Albino printing errors and it’s all just the sun’s doing.

**Sun-bleached:

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[/details]**Some people take sun-discoloring to the next level. This card has been discolored by the sun for more than a year. Although it remains a regular Pikachu card, it looks pretty cool competently pale, which is why I’ve bought it for my collection.

And here is another sun-discolored one from the World Collection 2000 set:

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**Sun-discolored Albino misprint Jumbo:

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Just like the regular sized Pokémon TCG cards, the Jumbo cards can get sun-discolored as well. The card above is a partially Albino Jumbo Pikachu.

Here is a recent small discussion about these Albino bordered misprints: www.elitefourum.com/t/show-off-your-error-cards/15937/107

It could be that there are both ‘real’ Albino-border misprints, like the Jungle Pikachu in the link above that is owned by @kkthxbai, as well as this Jungle Jolteon.

But I think the majority of the Albino-border misprints you’ll come across are most likely the sun’s doing, like the Pikachus I own, or the cards @scratchdesk shows a few posts down in that same linked thread.

Greetz,
Quuador