1958 Topps Master Set

[ALR-bishop]

Contest card, Emblem offer and unopened 1 cent pack ( far below). The 5 cent pack from 1958..and 1956...are the hardest Topps packs to get in my experience. Griffins who posts here has one. Also a weird Grissom

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Card 44, Washington Team card and second series checklist does list card 145 as Ed Bouche. On card 134 the Phillies team card and another checklist 2 omits card 145 which was not issued. Bouche had been suspended from baseball by then for one year. I used to wonder if any proof card of Bouche exists but none has surfaced. Bob Lemke did produce two alternate versions. Cards 135 and 142 below have related back defects ( pretty scarce). The Consolo is a recurring print defect



Burk has many a defect, Pearrson was an early dot com and Whammy has a top recurring border defect



Sisler has a lot of weird bottom right border variants and the aforementioned Hoeft can be found with red and yellow triangles near the logo as well as with YL and W letters




I like my weird Herrera Herrera more than my Herrer, which is really just another scarce recurring print defect

[ALR-bishop]

Emblems. These were recently reproduced in a Heritage offering so be careful in trying to purchase one of the 58s



5 cent wrapper

[sedin26]

Looks like I have a lot more to pick up!

I've noticed a lot of the Ray Moore cards have a big dot on his forehead.

[ALR-bishop]

Good one Scott. Fairly common recurring print defect

[avalanche2006]

Wow. A guy could spend a lot of time just collecting all of the printing variations. So whats the story of the totally different background color for the Kubek and Martin, I believe?

Thanks for sharing all of those cards Al. Is this one of your favorite sets?

[ALR-bishop]

Least favorite of the 50s sets. But an interesting one

[geosluggo]

If you want to be really serious about it, there's a contest card with a June 30 deadline and one with a July 8 deadline. I think the cards are the same otherwise. I recently completed this set with the felt emblem card and a June 30 contest card. So far I have resisted the temptation to pick up a July 8 card as well.