1971 Topps Information/Images Needed

[jmoran19]

#10 - Rak w/player card as header. There are legitimate ones. My theory is either they ran out of headers or they didn't get produced in time for series 1 raks. Others friends think they might have been promo. Items.

I opened the below Rak probably around 2001/2002. One section came from the left slit, one section from the right slit and the 3rd flopped between the 2 slits. Sequence as expected. Received many 8's in addition to these two cards (also got 2 Davey C. RC's).

[jmoran19]

Last post for now, headed to PT. A friend sent me this article from a 1971 publication, it’s dated 9/25, assuming 1971 ha. Talks about series 5 and 6 wax packs as well as the greatest moments set.

John

[mikemb]

Here is my 1971 Topps wax pack wrapper. It is the Extra Insert version and has an ad for a Bubble Gum Shaker.

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Hope this helps.

Mike

[deweyinthehall]

Wow - thanks to all for this great information!

Couple things - I will happily take images of 2nd and 4th series full sheets - I have images of both but I could use upgrades on both.

I assume the wax case pictured held 1st series (possibly 5th) Collect All the Top Stars boxes as the 401 number corresponds to those wrappers.

As to the 1973 case, I already had the image shown here so I assume one held the by-series boxes and the other held the All 660 Cards boxes. The wrappers all used the same code (the All 660 simply printed it in red) and I have the code from a by-series box. Nothing matches up to a 453 prefix though, which is odd. Thoughts?

Oh, and I won't be featuring the extras like the Greatest Moments, etc. There are so many rabbit holes this project could take me down (like those codes for instance) already.

Thanks!

And I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I'd have been able to record a lot more product codes from Cello, Wax, Rack and Vending boxes if those BBCE labels weren't all affixed right in the center of the box bottoms! Wonder if they record the codes before they put the labels on....

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

#10 - Rak w/player card as header. There are legitimate ones. My theory is either they ran out of headers or they didn't get produced in time for series 1 raks. Others friends think they might have been promo. Items.

I opened the below Rak probably around 2001/2002. One section came from the left slit, one section from the right slit and the 3rd flopped between the 2 slits. Sequence as expected. Received many 8's in addition to these two cards (also got 2 Davey C. RC's).

The headers used in 1971 were the same as in 1970, so that got me thinking maybe once they ran low or ran out, it was only late series racks that used regular cards as headers - but then there's the one you posted with 1st series cards. So I'm not sure where this leaves us (I have an image of such a rack with all 4th series cards).

[jmoran19]

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