1973 - Uncut

[deweyinthehall]

A few threads having to do with uncut sheets of various years prompted me to go an look through the images I have.

I found something which strikes me as odd and I'm wondering whether someone can tell me what I'm missing.

I have these two different images of 1973 series 1, presumably the A and B slits, but notice the 6x11 blocks with the card #1 in the upper left appears 3 times (top and bottom on one slit, top on the other) and a different 6x11 block with the Dodgers team card in the upper left (and all the leader cards) appears just once.

This would seem to set up a 3x1 print ration.

Something must be wrong here as there are no SPs or 3x prints listed anywhere, and I've never noticed or heard of any scarcities.

Does someone here know what I'm looking at (or for)? I know 1973 was the first "all in one" year (at least in some places at some times) - does this explain it in some way? Probably there's a sheet with 2 dodgers team card blocks out there?

[Kevvyg1026]

There were 660 cards in the 1973 issue. That means that there were five different sheets of 132 cards. So each print sheet would have had 264 cards which means each of the 132 cards unique cards two times each. So there should not be any short prints

from what I've seen, each slit had a pattern of six rows by 11 cards followed by another six by 11 so depending upon where your uncut material was from you could see one row printed twice but the other slit would have the other six rows of 11 followed by six by 11.

[Cliff Bowman]

I hate that style of sheet printing, I think Topps did the same thing in 1970 with some sheets.

[whiteymet]

Speaking of 73 Topps, does anyone have the color Topps advertising sheet for the set? As I recall it looked like the cards were standing up on astroturf

I had a bunch of the adverting sheets back in the 70's and my memory tells me I recall seeing a card on it that was not issued.

Either a card not issued or a different photo of a player than was issued on his card.

If anyone has this sheet please post it here and look it over to see if you can see the card I am talking about.

[jmoran19]

Doing from memory, I think the sheet with all 132 cards is an OPC sheet. Will check files

John

[jmoran19]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

Doing from memory, I think the sheet with all 132 cards is an OPC sheet. Will check files

John

Ok if not OPC the sheet with all time HR leaders in rows 1 and 7 is a slit A sheet. Slit b would be the bottom half of the sheet with all 132 cards printed twice in 66 card blocks.

The full 132 card series 1 sheet looks to say silt A1. Topps did issue wax packs with combined series one and series 2 cards so maybe the right half of the 264 card sheet was the series 2 132 card sheet as seen below but note the label says "side B1" not slit b....

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Speaking of 73 Topps, does anyone have the color Topps advertising sheet for the set? As I recall it looked like the cards were standing up on astroturf

I had a bunch of the adverting sheets back in the 70's and my memory tells me I recall seeing a card on it that was not issued.

Either a card not issued or a different photo of a player than was issued on his card.

If anyone has this sheet please post it here and look it over to see if you can see the card I am talking about.

That A’s player in the upper left corner on the advertising sheets of jmoran sure doesn’t look familiar.

[deweyinthehall]

Pretty sure the Indians player to the right of Holtzman isn't in the set either.