1975 sspc

[TCMA]

Ok, the second printing was done years later and was illegal. Somehow the negatives were obtained from the printer and used to create the cards. No telling how many illegal sets were reprinted.

This is where the "Noland" error card came from, as when the original cards were being produced my father noticed the superfluous "d" and personally removed it from the printing plate .

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by TCMA

Ok, the second printing was done years later and was illegal. Somehow the negatives were obtained from the printer and used to create the cards. No telling how many illegal sets were reprinted.

This is where the "Noland" error card came from, as when the original cards were being produced my father noticed the superfluous "d" and personally removed it from the printing plate .

Thank you for the great info....if I can ask a few more questions, is there a way to tell which sets were from the original run versus the illegal run? Would this "Noland" Ryan error help to determine if the set was from the original 10k run or not, or is there another way? I have several sets, and I have noticed two of the sets have sporadic miscut cards....is it more likely that the MC cards were from the original set?
Thank you again!

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Thank you for the great info....if I can ask a few more questions, is there a way to tell which sets were from the original run versus the illegal run? Would this "Noland" Ryan error help to determine if the set was from the original 10k run or not, or is there another way? I have several sets, and I have noticed two of the sets have sporadic miscut cards....is it more likely that the MC cards were from the original set?
Thank you again!

Yes, the "Noland" error only appears in the illegal reprint sets. Other than that I'm not aware of another way to tell the sets apart. If you have both I would compare and see. It's been too long since I've seen a complete set .

[Cliff Bowman]

Nearly every card in the set can be found with two differently cropped photos like this Brett (the gap above his cap), could that be from the illegal printing?

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Nearly every card in the set can be found with two differently cropped photos like this Brett (the gap above his cap), could that be from the illegal printing?

Wow, interesting. I'll try and get some more info on that .

[mm1sub]

I am down to needing the following cards for my set so if anyone has them for sale at a reasonable price let me know:


41 (Rose)
238 (Yount)
239 (Aaron)
425 (Hunter)
433 (Munson)
494 (Reggie Jackson)
593 (Noland Ryan CL)

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Nearly every card in the set can be found with two differently cropped photos like this Brett (the gap above his cap), could that be from the illegal printing?

Spoke to my father and he said it's hard to know. There may have been multiple printing plates where the borders were moved just slightly. Best bet is to compare one of the sets with the "Noland" error and compare the cards to those in a set without the error card. That way you can compare the borders and see if one set has one variation of the cropping, and the other set doesn't.

[bcbgcbrcb]

As far as production run of the "illegal" sets, a quick check on e-bay revealed more Nolan error cards than correct ones, I take that to mean that there are more "illegal" sets out there than "legal".

[obxhouses4rent]

Back In the day, late 70's or so my brother and I were working on getting the entire SSPC set signed. A number of the players would not sign them as they stated they were not paid to appear on the cards. I remember Kent Tekulve being one of them. We thought they would look great signed as the front have nothing but the photo on it. Still like the set.

I also remember the sets being sold at Cooperstown by the store that had lots of TCMA material back then too.