1959 Topps Uncut Sheets?

[ALR-bishop]

Great item in any condition

[Oil Can Dan]

Here's the 7th series sheet:

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[Oil Can Dan]

Here's the fifth series sheet of 66:

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[Oil Can Dan]

4th series. Not sure what to make of the fact that the first four rows are repeated. Would that indicate that all the card in those four rows are double prints, and then theoretically more available than the others?

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[Oil Can Dan]

Wait, never mind - here's the picture of the other 4th series sheet, so obviously then there were multiple printing sheets for the various series:



edit - I just realized that per your first post you already had this info, so sorry for being redundant! I guess I'll leave them up regardless. Unfortunately I don't have any other pics so the mystery will continue.

[SMPEP]

The 1959 Topps cards were printed on a Lord Baltimore Printing press with a splitter attached. Meaning that a full sheet is 264 cards - but it is probably impossible (or close to it!) to find any sheets bigger than 132 because they were intended to be cut into two sheets right off the press. (The cutting of the 132 card sheets was done in Brooklyn at the Topps factory).

So, the two fourth series sheets you have show what the complete sheet looked like (before being split). I do not know which side was on the left and which was on the right.

Cheers,
Patrick

[jmoran19]

All 88 card series have each card printed 3 times (264 total cards) laid out as follows:

Left half of 264 card sheet
Row a
Row b
Row c
Row d
Row e
Row f
Row g
Row h
Row a
Row b
Row c
Row d

The right half (132 cards) would be:
Row e
Row f
Row g
Row h
Row a
Row b
Row c
Row d
Row e
Row f
Row g
Row h

66 card series have each card printed 4 times in 6 row blocks on the 264 card sheet

John

[Oil Can Dan]

That's interesting - thanks for that. Do you have any other insight on how the cards were individually cut? One thing I don't really understand is how certain cards suffer from off-center cutting more than others. For example, #104 Del Rice is really hard to find centered, but even if that were to be say a corner card then how could it be just that one that's off? I mean there are other series 1 cards that are seemingly more off center than others but I assume that the cards were cut the way you'd cut a pizza or something, so I don't really get how some are more off than others. If one were off, wouldn't the entire sheet be off?