[marvymelvin]

Just looking for some feedback on the 1957 Topps set specifically color registration. I have purchased two large groupings of 57's that are very clean with sharp edges and corners. Most are commons with a few team cards. I am noticing that as I go through them to put them in sleeves and top loaders that the color is sharper on some and duller on others. Some lettering at the bottom or team name on the team cards is either blurry or yellowish greenish and not very sharp. Faces on some of the team cards are blurry etc. The card stock looks and feels right, and smells right (most of you know that vintage card smell, a mix of newsprint wax and gum) but the color on some just looks low grade and weird. Does anybody have any comment about this?

I know that star cards have been raked but can't imagine that the whole set has been counterfeited. Again they are mostly commons. But some of the team cards look the worst. You can see yellow offset in the lettering and dark blues are just grayish.

Another thing that makes me wonder is there seems to be a lot more "big lots" of 57's for sale in ex-nm than other 50's sets. Hmmmm.