October Pick-Ups...

[Bigdaddy]

Added the Duke to my 1952 low-number working set.

[David W]

Wrong back cards are always cool

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by David W

Wrong back cards are always cool

Is that a wrong back from an entirely different product? Now that's interesting.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Is that a wrong back from an entirely different product? Now that's interesting.

Exactly what I was thinking. Did they ever do this as some kind of advertising sheet, or would this just have been an accident at the printing plant?

[David W]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Is that a wrong back from an entirely different product? Now that's interesting.

Yes. I’ve got many blank back Brock cards and a handful of wrong baseball backs but this is different

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Is that a wrong back from an entirely different product? Now that's interesting.

They are on eBay frequently and they usually sell in the $100+/- range. Nearly all of them are from the 1973 second series sheet 133-264, but I have seen some from the first series sheet 1-132. I don't know if they were a test run with leftover Wacky Packages backs, a mistake, or someone at the plant fooling around, but they are always perfectly aligned on the front and the back which is unusual because in other similar situations the backs are almost always misaligned from the fronts. What I wonder is were they cut up back in 1973 or did someone cut up sheets in the past ten years to sell them individually on eBay?

[mr2686]

Picked up a 1960 NU BASEBALL HI-LITES card to display with my Fred Snodgrass autograph. Honestly, I thought they were regular card size, but it's kinda cool that they're bigger (display wise that is).

[pete zouras]

On my way to a quartet of 1956 set building.

[JollyElm]

This is the type of card I like to refer to as 'the reality of the wax pack.' Sure, according to the grading standards PSA established for themselves, the card is technically off-centered. No argument there, but this is undoubtedly what 99.9% of the cards coming out of Topps packs looked like in the summer of '64...imperfectly centered. However, the snow-white corners are sharp and beautiful, and I would never look at this quartet of sluggers and immediately think, "Hey, that card is off-center!!" No frickin' way!!

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