Brooks Robinson proofs/test/FINAL negatives/etc

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Hi Mark:

I've been tracking all the various oddities produced by Topps from the beginning until about 1980, although I am more and more focusing on the pre 1972 stuff and the corporate history.

The Wrapper is indeed a great little magazine published by Les Davis that has been going for over thirty years. Here is their link where you can order a sample copy; it's pretty much my favorite hobby publication:
http://www.thewrappermagazine.com/

My Wrapper piece is on the origins of Topps and their predecessor companies. It contains a lot of new information about the Shorin family and debunks many of the commonly told anecdotes that are all over the web concerning the early days.

I collect type examples of all Topps cards thru 1980 but as noted above I may scale this back to pre-72. I've pretty much put together all the Topps baseball sets I care to at this point as well, though it's only a short run from 67-75. I also collect old Brooklyn Dodgers cards and am working on a T206 set plus a couple odds and ends.

You should never listen to what Al says by the way