1964 Topps - Is There A Set With More Variability?

[jingram058]

If so, I haven't come across one. It looks like 1964 Topps was printed in more than one location. Probably not, but looks like it. Quality control appears to have been non-existent with this set. Please don't get me wrong. I love this set with it's huge team names on the front and the creamsicle backs. But there are wild variations to color for the players name bottom banner and the team name font color. On the back, some are in fact creamsicle orange, but some are not orange, but red. And sometimes you can read the text, and sometimes you can't. Sometimes they are flat out blurry or out of focus (like my shaky Parkinson's photography, apologies). I guess all this is really what makes this set attractive to me, in some weird unexplainable way.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jingram058

But there are wild variations to color for the players name bottom banner and the team name font color. On the back, some are in fact creamsicle orange, but some are not orange, but red. And sometimes you can read the text, and sometimes you can't. Sometimes they are flat out blurry or out of focus (like my shaky Parkinson's photography, apologies).

I don't like the design of the set anyway compared to the 1963 or 1965 issues, but you've just given me another reason not to collect the 1964 cards.



P.S. Please reduce the width of your picture though. It's messing up the formatting of this page.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't like the design of the set anyway compared to the 1963 or 1965 issues, but you've just given me another reason not to collect the 1964 cards.



P.S. Please reduce the width of your picture though. It's messing up the formatting of this page.

Looks fine on the mobile version.


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[Balticfox]

The picture is going well beyond the side of the screen on my 17.1" laptop. Pictures should be limited to an absolute maximum of 1050 pixels or so.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

The picture is going well beyond the side of the screen on my 17.1" laptop. Pictures should be limited to an absolute maximum of 1050 pixels or so.

I have no way to fix them that I know of. If they're too big the photo uploader won't accept them. I will take more and remove these if it's that big a deal.

[ALR-bishop]

I have some nostalgia for the set because I completed it by buying it series by series as they were issued by Topps through The Card Collector's Company in NY

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

The picture is going well beyond the side of the screen on my 17.1" laptop. Pictures should be limited to an absolute maximum of 1050 pixels or so.

Consider them fixed.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Consider them fixed.

Thank you!

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by jingram058

If so, I haven't come across one. It looks like 1964 Topps was printed in more than one location. Probably not, but looks like it. Quality control appears to have been non-existent with this set. Please don't get me wrong......

I think we will find out Topps had cards printed by a number of firms when demand exceeded expectations. Not sure about timing or the exact particulars but my feeling is that more hands were involved than we currently realize.