1973 Topps Printing Sheets

[Cliff Bowman]

Kevin studied this extensively, I think he found 66 x 2 sheets for all five Series and 132 card sheets for Series 1 through 3 but not for the 4th and 5th Series if I remember correctly. ETA, I wonder if the variation sheets could be OPC like what happened on the 1976 sheets.

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Kevin studied this extensively, I think he found 66 x 2 sheets for all five Series and 132 card sheets for Series 1 through 3 but not for the 4th and 5th Series if I remember correctly. ETA, I wonder if the variation sheets could be OPC like what happened on the 1976 sheets.

I wondered about that as well- but upon inspection they all appear to be Topps - you can tell most easily by the checklists.

[deweyinthehall]

I just discovered another pattern - Each card in the set is printed with either 1 or 2 asterisks on the reverse.

Sheets with 66x 2 - all cards have either 1 or 2, the series' other 66x2 sheet will have the opposite.

On the 132 card sheets, the top half have 1 and the bottom half have 2 - never seen a pattern where cards from the same sheet have differing printing asterisks.

[jmoran19]

5th series sheets I have saved. FYI the one I have labeled OPC is same as the Schmidt sheet below. John

[jmoran19]

schmidt

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

I just discovered another pattern - Each card in the set is printed with either 1 or 2 asterisks on the reverse.

Sheets with 66x 2 - all cards have either 1 or 2, the series' other 66x2 sheet will have the opposite.

On the 132 card sheets, the top half have 1 and the bottom half have 2 - never seen a pattern where cards from the same sheet have differing printing asterisks.

I thought Topps didn't start using master sheet codes A - F until 1977, and in 1976 started using an "*" to indicate individual cards were updated. Maybe they did not have a consistent use of codes in. Maybe Toppcat can shed light on this issue

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

I thought Topps didn't start using master sheet codes A - F until 1977, and in 1976 started using an "*" to indicate individual cards were updated. Maybe they did not have a consistent use of codes in. Maybe Toppcat can shed light on this issue

Not really. Are they saying above that the 73 sheets had A-E codes though?

[jmoran19]

Series 4 sheets you didn't note as having. John

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

Series 4 sheets you didn't note as having. John

Thank you!

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Not really. Are they saying above that the 73 sheets had A-E codes though?

Nope - no sheet codes. Just talking asterisks.