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Old 03-16-2022, 03:23 PM
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The sheet was a Topps Baseball sheet from 1969 and has a black border running the length of the half sheet on the left edge. None of the cards did not have any " * " or " ** " markings on the reverse, just the normal copyright logo.

On the pre-1977 sheets, every card has either a single or double asterisk on the reverse. Can you explain further on what this means? I was told by another sheet collector that it meant the card was from a sheet that was updated after the start of the production run.

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A sheet was 264 cards made up of 132 card half sheets, called slits. There is an A slit and a B slit. One slit has one *, the other two **. They did this so the art dept in Brooklyn would know which slit the cards came from; it may also have indicated which part of a slit a card came from, depending upon the series or set size. It has nothing to do with an update.
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