1968 Topps Milton Bradley question

[cardinalcollector]

My gut feeling is that this is indeed a Milton Bradley card due to white border and brightness of the back. We have a MB expert on this board who will hopefully see this thread.

[bobbyw8469]

Milton Bradleys are EXTREMELY tough to differentiate. I have seen cards with the white stripe and the correct colored back not get the Milton Bradley designation and I have seen cards totally missing the white stripe and the wrong colored back get the Milton Bradley tag. Definite head scratchers for sure.

[ALR-bishop]

Joe-- Carlton Miller who posts here as goheels knows more about these than anyone I know. I sent him Email asking him to take a look. In a prior thread here discussing the Topps 1968 card design he discusses both front and back ways to distinguish them. There is also a good discussion in two not too distant past CU threads . But I think Carlton will be able to answer your question

[ncinin]

With the card in hand the Milton Bradley cards are not difficult to identify.

The border confuses some because on the regular Topps sheet cards printed at the border of the sheets have white showing if cut offcenter because the border is white. If a card in the middle of the sheet is offcenter you do not see white but the burlap of the next card since there are no white borders on the card.

On a MB sheet if a card is offcenter but not at the border of the sheet you see white from the 1967 Topps football card printed above or below.

If you have trouble with the color on the back simpy get a 1967 Topps football card and compare the color. Topps printed 1967 Topps football and 1968 Topps baseball for the MB game on the same sheet and the backs were printed all in the color of 1967 Topps football.

[4reals]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Carlton Miller who posts here as goheels knows more about these than anyone I know. I sent him Email asking him to take a look.

Originally Posted by ncinin

If you have trouble with the color on the back simpy get a 1967 Topps football card and compare the color. Topps printed 1967 Topps football and 1968 Topps baseball for the MB game on the same sheet and the backs were printed all in the color of 1967 Topps football.

Al - thanks for contact him for me, I appreciate it.

ncinin - thanks for the tip on '67 football. I have a couple lying around. Once I get the card in hand I'll compare them.

[Rich Klein]

Has a complete checklist of the 1968 Milton Bradley cards as an expert while I was there provided said list.

Rich

[ALR-bishop]

Rich--not clear to me what you are asking. I have the MB baseball set and the checklist for it from SCD, but not for the Football and hot rod cards. I think Carlton will have the complete list, since he has 4 or 5 complete games, and, I think, thousands of the cards. One thing I learned from him is that the SCD checklist for baseball is one card short. The CL card in the set was a double print. One version has fine mesh and the other wide mesh.

There is an MB discussion in this thread

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=165264