wrong backs

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

My Dad is working on a 1960 set and he showed me something today I had never seen before He has card #289 Willie Jones, and then he had another Willie Jones with card #291 Bob Keegan on the reverse. Anyone ever seen this example before? It's perfect so it doesn't look like a sheet got fed wrong or something, more akin to the '52 Topps Page/Sain situation, but I've never come across it before.

[NiceDocter]

I have a lot of wrong backs from 1963 and 1964 and most have the backs inverted versus the fronts. Check and see if thats the case with yours.... if so, you have a sheet that was fed in backwards and hence the wrong back.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

That was my first thought, but they both face the same way as every normal card in the set. Hence my comment that it wasn't a case of the sheet being fed wrong.

[bnorth]

If the cards front and backs are the directions they are supposed to be it is because they loaded the wrong fronts. If it was more modern think sheet A fronts with sheet B backs loaded the proper direction.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Thought of that too, but the numbers are only 2 apart, 289 and 291, which seemed odd, wouldn't they be on the same sheet?

[bnorth]

Thought of that too, but the numbers are only 2 apart, 289 and 291, which seemed odd, wouldn't they be on the same sheet?

I do not know the layout of those sheets but I have never seen a sheet that had the numbers in order.

[Leon]

Wrong backs on pre war cards has been a collecting niche *subset, for some, me included. This is sort of a wrong back (but when I think wrong back I think E92 series)...
My Dad is working on a 1960 set and he showed me something today I had never seen before He has card #289 Willie Jones, and then he had another Willie Jones with card #291 Bob Keegan on the reverse. Anyone ever seen this example before? It's perfect so it doesn't look like a sheet got fed wrong or something, more akin to the '52 Topps Page/Sain situation, but I've never come across it before.

[x2drich2000]

Just to keep with the prewar thoughts, here are a few of the e92 wrong backs Leon was referring to.

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u394/x2drich2000/Personal%20Collection/Misc/e92%20menagerie%20lobert.jpg

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u394/x2drich2000/Personal%20Collection/Misc/e92%20menagerie%20kleinow.jpg

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u394/x2drich2000/Personal%20Collection/Cy%20Young%20Orange%20backrun/e92-e78%20young.jpg

DJ

[steve_a]

Count me among those in the niche subset. I grab all of these that I can. They just don't come up that often pre-war outside of Play Ball. Here's a nice example-