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Originally Posted by tedzan
Steve
Thanks for your kind words. I'm curious, where did you live in 1952 that you did not have 52T cards at your neighborhood stores ?
I know that certain series of 1952 Topps (52T) cards were not available in certain areas of the country; however, the 52T's were very popular.
Topps went back and repeated press runs of the 1st & 2nd series to satisfy the demand.
The RED backs of the 1st series (cards #1-80) are the result of these repeated press runs. In the North Jersey and greater New York city area
the 1st series cards were the BLACK backs (available in the Spring of '52).
TED Z
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Sorry, the Redbacks I referred to were the 1951 cards, not the '52's. I'm only going by the few memory cells I have left from that summer 60 years ago. As an 8-year-old in Auburn NY - small city west of Syracuse - most stores I went in had the 1952 Bowmans, and even some leftover 1951 Topps sets, but I don't recall ever finding the 1952 Topps set. I remember seeing the cards in another kid's collection, but he informed me he had obtained them on a trip to NYC, so I regarded them with great awe, as I assumed they were not available upstate. Now, however, I imagine the '52's might have been there somewhere if I had only known where to look - still, perhaps not very heavy distribution.