1958 topps Roger maris Wrong back!

[AP34]

I just purchased this over the weekend. I did research and could not find another one. Has anyone seen one or know of other similar RC wrong backs?

I like maris and tend to keep buying them. Not for sale at the moment just curious and this is the page to go to for the hard questions.

[raulus]

Same concept, different issue. Helpfully, someone has attempted to make some corrections by hand on the back.

[Cliff Bowman]

Is the back of the ‘58 Maris upside down (opposite direction than normal ‘58s)?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Is the back of the ‘58 Maris upside down (opposite direction than normal ‘58s)?

It does look to be upside down.

Wrongbacks are kinda rare but not super rare. Prices can be all over the place. Most see them as garbage you couldn't give them. Then there are the weirdos like myself and a few others that will actually pay a premium for them.

[Lucas00]

Love it, I'd say the value should be around the same as a high grade equivalent standard rookie maybe an sgc/psa 6 or 7.

[AP34]

Thanks for the info! Happy hunting all!

[Kutcher55]

The fact that the back is a HOFer definitely ratchets up the cool factor. Can't be many of these around.

[Kutcher55]

Maybe get it reslabbed by SGC, but have them call it a 1958 Early Wynn with a Maris front?

Actually scratch that. Would probably hurt the value.

[Cliff Bowman]

Another member here, Kevin, and I rebuild '50s and '60s Topps production sheets that aren't currently known. We just very recently reconstructed three missing rows from a partial 1958 Topps 1st Series sheet and Maris was one of those 33 missing cards, The problem is we have Maris in the fourth column of one of those three previously missing rows and Wynn is in the tenth column of an already known row, that doesn't work with your card if it is a wrong back because if the entire back of the sheet was printed upside down like the vast majority of wrong backs are then Maris would line up with the eighth card of another row, not the tenth like Wynn is. I believe this Maris wrong back is actually a very well cut card from a Salesman Sample 3 card panel and was purposely printed with a Wynn back like this Salesman Sample 3 card panel. Otherwise we have a mistake in our 3 row reconstruction.