1965 Topps Series 6 semi-high Sheet Reconstruction

[Kevvyg1026]

Series 6 from 1965 had 77 cards in the series, so SPs exist. Reconstruction of the slits will be exceptionally difficult because significant miscuts are scarce. However, there are some available, so I am trying anyway.

Here is some additional information in case anyone wants to chime in.

From what I can tell, Topps used the following pattern for the locations of the checklists in each series:

Check 1 (both versions) were in C11
Check 2 was always in C2 (both 1st & 2nd series printing)
Check 3 was always in C11 (both 2nd & 3ed series printing)
Check 4 was always in C2 (both 3rd & 4th series printing)
Check 5 was always in C11 (both 4th & 5th series printing)
Check 6 was in C2 (5th series printing)
Check 7 was in C11 (7th series)

So, I would expect Series 6 (# 443) to be in Col 2 while Series 7 (508) to be in Col 11 for the 6th series printing.

I think the series 6 (443) printing variation has the nearly complete m in #481 (series 5 printing of 443 has the mostly cut off m). The series 6 printing of series 7 checklist (508) should be the larger print version.

And here are a couple of miscuts, offered as a tease.

1965_451_MC.jpg

1965_482_Priddy_above_Owens.jpg

1965_485_Fox_bottom_edge.jpg

1965_Banks_V475_510.jpg

[Kevvyg1026]

As can be seen, Boyer is most likely above two different cards, Banks and another with a black border.

Topps did use a team-related coloring scheme in 1965 for the borders.

[Cliff Bowman]

I didn't know JollyElm (Darren) had a horizontally severe miscut 1965 Topps 6th Series Ernie Banks, the card to the left of Banks is Gene Freese who is definitely a 3x because of his low quantities on eBay and elsewhere. That makes the 1965 Ernie Banks a SP (3x). It will be nearly impossible to ever figure out the 1965 6th Series 77 card layout but it would be nice to at least figure out if the key cards (Carlton, Banks, Mathews) are 3x or 4x.

[Kevvyg1026]

Here is 453, Dodgers RS, next to 506, Mele

1965_453-506.jpg

[JollyElm]

I don't believe I was even aware of this thread, but wouldn't have been much help anyway, because I forgot I had that Banks miscut in an album page somewhere.

It's cool that you found it and it helps a bit with the sheet layout mystery.
(If it wasn't for you meddling kids, Topps would've gotten away with it!!)

[Cliff Bowman]

#486 Angels Rookie Stars has a dark green border card to its left which means that is has to be a Brave or a Red Sox card. In the 1965 6th Series there are Geiger, Braves Rookie Stars (Niekro), O'Dell, Woodward, Ritchie, E Mathews, Red Sox Rookie Star (Guindon), and Cloninger. The card to the left of the #486 Angels Rookie Stars miscut has a design flaw where the white bio/stat box has the white jutting out in the bottom left corner. I checked all eight cards and all Cloninger cards have the same design flaw, none of the other seven cards have the design flaw. That means there is a sequence of Nellie Fox-Tony Cloninger-Angels Rookie Stars on one of the 4x rows.