Topps Uncut Sheets

[steve B]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Thanks - larger scans would be great if it were possible. I'm really surprised there's no single reference site (that i know of) that captures what we know and what we conjecture about Topps sheets, 1952-1972.

I even have a couple questions about 1974 and 1976 - at 132 cards you'd have an even 5 sheets. But the Traded cards were mixed in , so I assume there were 6 sheets each of those years?

Also, in the 1972 set, series 1 has 132 cards, and each subsequent series has 131 - this is because each subsequent series contains the checklist for its own series which is numbered as part of the previous series, and the checklst for the next series. For series 6, with no "next" series, I assume all 4 checklists across both slits were the 6th series.

So for 1972, it seems that the series 1 checklist was printed at half the rate of the other 5 - sound about right? And therefore, the other 5 were printed at twice the rate of the other cards in the set?

complicating things is the actual sheets being double sheets that were then cut down to 132.

I can't recall how the traded cards were done in 74 or 76, The local shop had a bunch of sheets a couple times between late 77 and 83 and they must have been there, so I would have seen them.