Base set Clefairy heart misprint, legit misprint or not?

[sacari]

I have heard that this card is not a real misprint and that a collector/seller personally stamped many clefaiy’s to try and sell them as rare misprints. Is there any hard proof or evidence that this card is a legitimate manufacturing error or is the story true? Everything I have heard so far seems to be just opinion and speculation.

[null_user]

Looks like BS to me. I could be wrong though. It’s definitely not a recognized error card for sure.
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Error_cards#Base_Set

Here is a video of someone showing off one of these Clefairy Heart cards:

[Pokemon Misprints] Clefairy Heart Stamp! Ep 2

There was discussion here before about a similar ‘misprint’ and mentions that this card was prone to ink bubbles.
www.elitefourum.com/t/the-name-for-this-kind-of-misprint-pokemon-card/12603/1

[cullers]

I think someone pretty credible pulled one from a pack a long time ago. It’s not exactly something that’s highly sought after so it’s not a big money marker or anything.

If you really want to know there’s ways to tell, I’ve never had one because I have no interest in it. So I haven’t done any test on them, but if there’s big money involved all that needs to be known is there’s ways to know.

[melchior]

@fritz
Tony here on E4 has a PSA 8 copy. You can ask him for his opinion on it.

[KingPokemon]

If it is a factory stain I guess you could call it an error. After all, the Butterfree ‘d’ is considered an error.

[ozenigma]

I think we are too prone to call things errors and misprints these days.

To me, a misprint is something that happened at design or during printing that has significant volume or replication.

Cards that have some kind of funky ink bubble or something that the printer randomly placed there shouldn’t be considered errors or misprints, they should be considered production faults.

It’s like if they accidentally sliced your card in half and you found it like that in the booster pack, you going to call that an error?

[KingPokemon]

@ozenigma

I think we are too prone to call things errors and misprints these days.

To me, a misprint is something that happened at design or during printing that has significant volume or replication.

Cards that have some kind of funky ink bubble or something that the printer randomly placed there shouldn’t be considered errors or misprints, they should be considered production faults.

It’s like if they accidentally sliced your card in half and you found it like that in the booster pack, you going to call that an error?

In theory and true definition I totally agree. Unfortunately though, through precedence and interest, cards like the butterfree d, are considered an error. I would prefer to call the Clefairy types “blotches” and the butterfree d “an interesting blotch”.

[ozenigma]

@KingPokemon

@ozenigma

I think we are too prone to call things errors and misprints these days.

To me, a misprint is something that happened at design or during printing that has significant volume or replication.

Cards that have some kind of funky ink bubble or something that the printer randomly placed there shouldn’t be considered errors or misprints, they should be considered production faults.

It’s like if they accidentally sliced your card in half and you found it like that in the booster pack, you going to call that an error?

In theory and true definition I totally agree. Unfortunately though, through precedence and interest, cards like the butterfree d, are considered an error. I would prefer to call the Clefairy types “blotches” and the butterfree d “an interesting blotch”.

I think the d edition butterfree is different though.

The 1st Edition stamp we know is an after print stamp and thus it appears the stamp used on Butterfree was defective because it has quite a large supply. We know it doesn’t affect other cards from the same set which makes it an error in my opinion.

The random blotch on a random card is not an error though, it’s a printing defect.