Cruyff Rookie Variations
 

Hey everybody, I have noticed a variation on the 1968 Bundesliga-Asse Sicker-Verlag cards. It relates to the back. If you notice on the scans below, one has a line that extends all the way across the card and the other has a break in the line, presumably so that the two card panel could be cut into the individual players and still have complete information (year and maker - though there is no perforation to make the "cut").

It appears to me that the "full line" version is much more difficult to find, but I would like to know what versions fellow collectors have to prove (or disprove) my hypothesis. I imagine that they first started with the full line version and realized that the company information and year was only on one card if collectors decided to cut them and improved this for subsequent runs. I have no proof of this, but it seems to me what would make sense.

Thanks in advance.

Mine is split.

Thanks Peter
 

Any other people who have this card who can share which version they have?

Same

Thanks guys
 

It seems as I suspected that the "most common" is the split version, though I would love more data to make that determination. Thanks for the information.

According to Ben in Germany, there are 7 different backs.

All Cards Have All Backs
 

A couple questions for those on this thread:

Can anyone confirm if every card in the set has each of these different back variations?

Also, does anyone know the rarity of the different back variations?

I actually don't collect Cruyff (although I'd buy his rookie if it fit in my budget), but I do collect Pele who is in this set and would love to know if all of these back variations exist and which ones would be the more rare.

Thanks all!

unsure
 

I do not know that. I will look at my Pele cards and let you know, but it by no means would be a complete view as I only have a couple of them.

Al