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Originally Posted by steve B (Post 2368511)

The printing blankets on our presses were green.

White is generally not used except if you want a consistent background or to brighten the colors.

50's Topps I think are layered, with a layer of white stock glued to the very rough cardstock. This was done for years. I'm not sure if it was done before or after printing, since I have some 60's "proofs" on nice paper stock.
Of course, Topps being Topps the 68-70 cards often come with an actual white layer on the back.

Topps would run paper proofs for some reason. There are 57's and 67's that I am aware of and suspect other years are still extant. The 57's are printed on both sides and my 1967 block of four has a plain white back.

I have one of the 57 paper proofs, Johnny Groth. Lemke pictured it on his blog years ago and reported that an ad by Richard German in The Trader Speaks that offered 32 of them for $6 dollars each in September 1979. Whether legit or not I don’t know. I have a copy of Lemke’s blog if anyone wants to see it

Fascinated by this sheet, Nicolo

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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop (Post 2503805)

Fascinated by this sheet, Nicolo

Thanks, Al.

Still not entirely sure how to display it!

Maybe one of these days I'll figure it out. It's just so big and heavy...