Someone sent me this pic recently, claiming it was a genuine misprint card and not just a card that had spent too much time in the sun.
They were pretty insistent on the fact that it had been printed without magenta, and that you’d never get that result on a card that had its colours washed out from exposure to the sun. But such a misprint seems a bit too convenient (a bluer Shining Mew? That’s like a shinier shiny!) and I have seen cards that have turned into strange palettes after taking sunlight for too long. I’ve also heard you can get some funky results by exposing the card’s surface to specific chemical substances.
How would you guys go about telling the difference between a genuine misprint and a normal card that just had its colours washed-out?
Have you ever seen confirmed examples of cards that were misprinted without one of their CMY colours? (most relevant to this specific case would be an example of a Japanese card, but examples in other languages might help too)
Help from experts collectors or printing professionals would be most welcome
I know there is someone on Instagram who has been sun fading his shining mew card to see if they can replicate this look and somewhat bust this error/misprint thing, so far 30 days in and theirs is looking pretty similar to that “misprint” My guess is it is sun faded but I can’t say for sure.
ahahha no, there’s no joke. Just curious since there was an italian guy selling a similar shining mew and he was blasted on the comments on fb when he said it was a misprint
To be 100% sure you will have to ask for high res zoomed pics, and check the ink dots for some faded magenta. Also the yellow will be faded too. First to be removed from sunlight will be magenta, then yellow, then cyan.
Just to add another evidence: a guy in Italy took a played mew and left it in the sun for about a month to prove that this kind of card is indeed sun faded and got the blue mew as the one in the pic^^
Its meeeeeee… After just 15 days in the shite UK sunlight it was noticable. Its something I’ve been adding to my instagram story. Also the user ‘italian_dragonite’ has done it.
These are 100% sun faded… Anyone trying to pass them off as genuine are trying to pull a fast one…
100% Agree with simon here…i also had a japanese seller explain to me that these are/have been altered using Nailbar UV lights!! i have no idea if this is true but it was enough to put me off buying the card on YJ. After both tests that have happened i am confident that its sun faded and NOT in any way an error.
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