Topps Stocks 1968-1970

[ALR-bishop]

For 68, not counting the separately produced Milton Bradley cards, there are different colored backs within different series in the set Are any of the cards OPCs ?

Also, see this thread

By the way, welcome. What is your first name and what do you collect ?


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[mets1986]

Thanks, Jay and Al -- good questions! My name is Alan. I added some image links in my original post. I would scan the cards to try and catch the dot pattern, but unfortunately we are having some IT issues at work.

I first noticed this when I got the 68 Brock off eBay a few weeks ago. Then, since I'm going through my HOF stuff, I noticed the Carlton. Then I started digging and noticed the two different Tovars. Aside from some 80s Topps sets, I collect by player, so all of my cards are organized that way rather by set.

I looked into the Milton Bradleys, but my understanding is the Brock is too high number for that. I also wondered about OPC, but I've only ever seen those say printed in Canada.

[steve B]

They should be just fine. Most of the cards from 68-70 come with both stocks. One is a regular light cream colored stock, the other is either a coated stock that looks very white, or they printed a white layer on the regular stock.

I haven't even completed those sets, let alone with both stocks, but I have enough to be fairly sure all cards from each set come both ways.

I haven't measured the thickness, it's interesting if the whiter ones are thinner.

[tschock]

1966 Topps has 2 stocks as well. Maybe the 1967 also, but am at work and don't have cards in front of me.

I never got how people who collect white/grey backs as 'variations' for the '56 and '59 sets don't do so for the '66 set. But to each his own.

[jchcollins]

What bugs me about thinner card stock in the early 1970's is those cards tend to slide around in mag cases pretty easily. I have some nice cards that I would like to protect / display better, but the only way to keep them from moving is the old reliable penny sleeve and toploader.

[frankhardy]

To ease your mind about counterfeits, I would put a loupe on the photo on the card to see if you see "pixels". If you do, then they are probably real. I have never see a counterfeits that had pixels.

Has anyone ever seen a counterfeit card that had the correct looking pixels under magnification?

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by frankhardy

Has anyone ever seen a counterfeit card that had the correct looking pixels under magnification?

I have not. The counterfeiters are getting good with inkjet and laser printers in making cards that look decent from an arm's length - but up close or under magnification you can always tell. The proper term for the pixels is "halftone dots" and it was the process used back then.