Reconstructing the 1963 Topps 6th and 7th Series Sheets

[Cliff Bowman]

These are combos I have on the 7th series blue block but I don't where they are on the sheet yet. I just found the McLish-Osborne combo today.

[Cliff Bowman]

And finally, these are the combos I have on the 7th series red block but I don't know where they are on the sheet yet.

[JollyElm]

Don't want to send your thread off on a tangent, but I'm wondering something. When the 1963 cards were in packs, were they all oriented the 'correct' way? It seems if Topps printed the cards that year with basically half of them upside down, would they have bothered expending the time and capital to make sure the cards were all aligned properly before putting them into packs??

Um...just did a search for unopened 1963 Topps packs, and answered my own question. The video I saw had the cards all over the place, right side up and upside down with no real consistency, so it was just as I imagined it would/should be. Cool.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Don't want to send your thread off on a tangent, but I'm wondering something. When the 1963 cards were in packs, were they all oriented the 'correct' way? It seems if Topps printed the cards that year with basically half of them upside down, would they have bothered expending the time and capital to make sure the cards were all aligned properly before putting them into packs??

Um...just did a search for unopened 1963 Topps packs, and answered my own question. The video I saw had the cards all over the place, right side up and upside down with no real consistency, so it was just as I imagined it would/should be. Cool.

Interesting, 1986 Topps baseball was printed the same way and I can't remember how they were in packs, but it's been 34 years. It's scary that 1986 is much closer to 1963 than it is to 2020.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Interesting, 1986 Topps baseball was printed the same way and I can't remember how they were in packs, but it's been 34 years. It's scary that 1986 is much closer to 1963 than it is to 2020.

Funnily enough I don't remember either and I opened a ton that year.

[Kevvyg1026]

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but this cello pack has cards in both directions.1986_cello.jpg

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but this cello pack has cards in both directions.Attachment 408441

I would think wax and cello packs and vending boxes were the same way, Topps would have to have had full time employees doing nothing else than manually going through hundreds of thousands of cards and making them all uniform. I don’t see that happening.