nonvintage question-- 1961topps

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Posted By: Wayne Grove

I have not seen a '61 Topps High Series sheet but have seen other series' sheets from '61 & '62. Based on these sheets I'll give this theory. Again, mo proof other than what has been done on other Topps sheets. First, most of the Topps sheets from 1960 thru at least 1971 were printed on sheets that had 132 cards per sheet, not 66. Therefore if that is the case with '61 high series cards were double printed on a single sheet (thus no real double prints-all printed same number of times. Since there are 65 cards in the series that leaves 2 cards unaccounted for. It is my guess (since I haven't seen an uncut sheet or if I have I've forgotten about it) that the 2 unaccounted for cards on the sheet would be of card #516 which is the 7th Series checklist card. This is based on the fact that I do remember getting the 7th series checklist card in 7th series packs(as well as 6th series packs)when I opened these as a kid in 1961. This is also how many of Topps Checklist variations came to be, they were printed on sheets in 2 different series.