seeking knowledge re: 1955 Topps baseball sheets

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

You are correct about there having to be “DP” rows in the 1955 Topps 3rd Series, each slit has 11 rows which would come out to 22 rows over two slits. There are five unique rows in the 1955 3rd Series so if each row is printed 4 times that comes out to 20 rows, that means there would be two more rows printed again for a total of 5x for each of those rows. The 1955 Topps 2nd Series was the opposite, there were six unique rows in that series so that meant that two of the six rows had to be printed 3x rather than 4x in order to fill out the 22 rows over the two slits. There ended up being two “SP” rows in the 1955 2nd Series.

I'm pretty sure Stanky alongside some of the others in seemingly abundant supply will end up being on one of the extra rows, but maybe I should refrain from these guesses when we may be able to actually prove something. I don't know how much data you guys have outside this thread for the high numbers but I will keep looking for other miscuts. Hopefully other folks can add their own miscuts.

Is there a chart of the cards numbers and rows/columns for the second series? I saw the post in the other thread but it appears the columns are reversed or off? My 55 set is long ago complete minus Clemente who I don't want to pay $1,500 for just yet but I am curious. 54 and 55 are two of the better ones to identify as the series have not been positively known outside of series 1.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by G1911

I'm pretty sure Stanky alongside some of the others in seemingly abundant supply will end up being on one of the extra rows, but maybe I should refrain from these guesses when we may be able to actually prove something. I don't know how much data you guys have outside this thread for the high numbers but I will keep looking for other miscuts. Hopefully other folks can add their own miscuts.

Is there a chart of the cards numbers and rows/columns for the second series? I saw the post in the other thread but it appears the columns are reversed or off? My 55 set is long ago complete minus Clemente who I don't want to pay $1,500 for just yet but I am curious. 54 and 55 are two of the better ones to identify as the series have not been positively known outside of series 1.

Yeah, I messed up on the 1955 Topps 2nd Series layout, hopefully Dewey will be able to fix my mistake when he has time. The two rows on the 1955 2nd Series that are short printed are the Amalfitano row and the Carroll row, and what's really interesting is the Carroll row is all ten cards numbered 151-160, including Eddie Mathews. I have noticed that some checklists have cards 151-160 listed separately at a slightly higher price so I believe dealers and collectors noticed years ago that 151-160 were in lesser quantities than most of the other cards in the series. ETA I don't think the 1955 Topps 3rd Series is a dead end like 1965 6th Series and 1957 5th Series have turned out to be but we need all of the miscuts we can get a hold of, plus there are row changes in the 1955 3rd Series which makes it more complicated.

[Cliff Bowman]

Here are the 1955 Topps 2nd Series slits that Dewey fixed after my screw up. 1955 Topps and 1956 Topps slits are actually supposed to be vertical rather than horizontal concerning the rows but they just look better horizontal.

[Cliff Bowman]

Here is the second slit.

[G1911]

Thank you Cliff, Dewey and Kevin, this is awesome to finally identify and see.

[Cliff Bowman]

Does anyone notice something very peculiar about the order in the 1955 Topps 2nd Series rows other than the 151-160 Carroll row?

Bolling-Donovan-Higgins-Kinder-Leja-Milliken-Pepper-Sawatski-Trice-Zimmer

Bishop-Crone-Herbert-Killebrew-Kraly-Lynch-Parnell-Roach-Tappe-Zernial

Bilko-Brown-Hatton-Jay-Koufax-Long-Paula-Riddle-Stewart-Wright

Bertoia-Brecheen-Hall-Hurd-Kluszewski-Lepciio-Ortiz-Renna-Smith-Ward

Amalfitano-Boyer-Elliott-Hoskins-King-Lennon-O’Brien-Purkey-Schofield-Valo

Carroll-Schmitz-Kress-Narleski-Podbielan-Mathews-Miller-Miranda-Black-Agganis

[Cliff Bowman]

I guess I should have worded it differently but I didn’t notice this until after the layout was finished, five of the six rows were done in alphabetical order which I thought was pretty wild. Kevin and I are currently working on the 1955 3rd Series and I noticed that the rows were in alphabetical order with a few exceptions, so I went back and looked at the 1955 2nd Series and was amazed that five of the six rows are in perfect alphabetical order other than the Carroll row, which I believe was added at the last minute to the 2nd Series.

Bolling-Donovan-Higgins-Kinder-Leja-Milliken-Pepper-Sawatski-Trice-Zimmer

Bishop-Crone-Herbert-Killebrew-Kraly-Lynch-Parnell-Roach-Tappe-Zernial

Bilko-Brown-Hatton-Jay-Koufax-Long-Paula-Riddle-Stewart-Wright

Bertoia-Brecheen-Hall-Hurd-Kluszewski-Lepciio-Ortiz-Renna-Smith-Ward

Amalfitano-Boyer-Elliott-Hoskins-King-Lennon-O’Brien-Purkey-Schofield-Valo

Carroll-Schmitz-Kress-Narleski-Podbielan-Mathews-Miller-Miranda-Black-Agganis