1950's & 60's Topps Card Populations?

[sflayank]

About 150 million cards produced each year in the 60s
250000 of each card
Probably 2 to 3 %
6000 of each covering all grades

[rats60]

Originally Posted by sflayank

About 150 million cards produced each year in the 60s
2.5 million of each card
Probably 2/10 or 3/10 of 1% left
6000 of each covering all grades

That would be ~250,000 of each card not 2.5 million.

[sflayank]

Yep
I was looking at the 60s instead of the 600 in each set
So 2 to 3 %
Ie..1963. 5000 mantles
So should be 5000 of everything
Maybe less hi#s more low #s
Maybe more mantles were saved but #s left should be close

[ALR-bishop]

I think it has been discussed here before and maybe Dave Hornish had some input. In researching the Topps and Fleer legal battles in the 60s I came across some figures in some published FTC cases that Fleer filed against Topps, and posted some of them somewhere but have no idea where now

[sflayank]

Lemke did a blog on it years ago
I recall it was from 59 60 61
The # I believe was 150 million it was based on topps sales reports and revenue
Check the mantle pop reports and multiply by # of cards in set
Also # went up as population of country grew

[ALR-bishop]

Good recall Larry

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[ALBB]

Wow,
I thought way way more then that

Didn't somewhere they talked about 30s Goudey cards..and said - 3 million of each card back this those days ??

[tulsaboy]

The other interesting question that follows from those numbers, if we adopt the idea that 2-3% of each particular card have survived (though I think there is an argument that more of the "stars" like Mantle and Mays survived because they were treasured and/or kept separate of the others), how many would you have to hoard to impact the price? I'm thinking of some of the known examples where people have tried to gather up as many of a particular card as possible. Would you need 2000? 3000? And how would you successfully acquire that many of a particular card quietly? I think that there are lots of each stuck in folks' complete set runs that won't emerge or be available for sale no matter how high the price.
kevin