1955-1970 Topps Virtual Series Sheets

[Kevvyg1026]

or a 1965 6th series.

[deweyinthehall]

Thanks again to the diligent work of others, we can put another older Topps series arrangement to bed. Because it contains 88 cards, it is possible to say with high confidence that we know both slit arrangements because 88 card full sheets are known to always follow the ABCDEFGHABCD and EFGHABCDEFGH pattern.

[Cliff Bowman]

Wow, that was quick! The recent thread on the 1957 4th Series that had a couple of panels from the 3rd Series gave me the idea of reconstructing the 3rd Series slits. I don’t know if Sports Collectors Digest was able to recreate the 1957 3rd Series sheet like they did with the 2nd and 4th Series for their 1999 cover story of the Alan Rosen 1957 Topps sheets find. It didn’t take Kevin and I too long to do this one compared to most other series. We just finished the 1958 3rd Series that we have been working on and off on for over a year.

[Kevvyg1026]

I saw this on ebay, a proof sheet for series 4 from 1961. Cliff and I will be working on the remaining 44 cards from this series, unless someone has an image of a slit from the series (wishful thinking???).


61 4 proof sheet-min.jpg


BTW, based on this miscut, the series 5 checklist which will appear on this sheet should be the one without the ad for the MVP cards.

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[ncal88]

Has anyone started work on the 1958 Series 1 sheet?

I’m working on building the master set and the yellow variations have intrigued me.

I have found some successful pairings from miscuts I can post if anyone else is interested in working on it with me.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ncal88

Has anyone started work on the 1958 Series 1 sheet?

I’m working on building the master set and the yellow variations have intrigued me.

I have found some successful pairings from miscuts I can post if anyone else is interested in working on it with me.

Funny you should ask, Kevin and I have figured out the three missing rows of 33 cards but we cannot figure out for the life of us how the slits go. There are so many row changes that there is no way they could do all of them over two slits, we suspect Topps made at least at least four slits. The other 77 cards were known through partial sheets.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by ncal88

Has anyone started work on the 1958 Series 1 sheet?

I’m working on building the master set and the yellow variations have intrigued me.

I have found some successful pairings from miscuts I can post if anyone else is interested in working on it with me.

There's all sorts of weirdness in 1958, capped by the four high numbers being (partially) pulled to allow for the Triple Printing of the Mantle and Musial AS cards. I've sometimes wondered if they had some sort of progressive printing in '58, where some cards from the current series would be subbed out for others from the next as printing went on through each series. I'm not talking about the checklist and series lagging stuff they pulled in the sixties but true sub-outs and new press runs.

And I'm not sure if this helps or not but Sam Rosen, who was Woody Gelman's stepfather and surely had the SP/DP info to pass to him, had this unique pricing breakdown in his July 1958 sales list:

[ncal88]

Originally Posted by toppcat

There's all sorts of weirdness in 1958, capped by the four high numbers being (partially) pulled to allow for the Triple Printing of the Mantle and Musial AS cards. I've sometimes wondered if they had some sort of progressive printing in '58, where some cards from the current series would be subbed out for others from the next as printing went on through each series. I'm not talking about the checklist and series lagging stuff they pulled in the sixties but true sub-outs and new press runs.

And I'm not sure if this helps or not but Sam Rosen, who was Woody Gelman's stepfather and surely had the SP/DP info to pass to him, had this unique pricing breakdown in his July 1958 sales list:

Thank you for replying! I was actually reading through your blog before I posted. I appreciate all the info you provided there.

So far, here are some of the pairings found in series 1. Interestingly, Billy Klaus is #89 and Clemente is #52 so they were printed together. Clemente is also next to Eddie Kasko #8.

Lee Walls #66 is next to George Kell #40 based on the stats on the back

Al Kaline #70 is next to Billy hunter #98.