1972 Topps High Number Printing Question...

[JollyElm]

(Said in Charles Montgomery Burns' voice) Excellent!!
Thanks for that! If nothing else, it verifies that at least some of the checklists in the run had the copyright on the left. Wish there were more pieces around to see if the other checklists on the sheets had the same layout.

[Kevvyg1026]

Here's a miscut checklist

1972_604_782.jpg

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

Here's a miscut checklist

Attachment 428361

You and your 1966 High Number brethren are the Lords of the Miscuts!! Ha ha!!
That one (like the uncut sheet section) also has #782 Larry Stahl next to it. Now we just need to find other high numbers abutting a checklist **or actually semi-high cards abutting #604 to see where the copyright is** to drive this quest forward.

[JollyElm]

I believe logic dictates that we have at least a partial answer to the problem. The high number series is from #657-787, which encompasses 131 cards. Add in the #604 checklist (because, unlike the earlier series, the high numbers only included one checklist) and that makes it the standard number of 132 different cards that Topps usually printed in a series at the time (two of each for a total of 264).

When I look at all of the images of uncut full and partial 1972 sheets I've collected over the years, one thing is perfectly clear. Like other years, each individual card is always located next to the same card on the print sheets. Therefore, each series checklist is next to the same cards in the two places it occupies on those sheets. So, if #604 (left side copyright) in next to #782, it will always be found next to #782. The (probable) conclusion is only the #604 (left side copyright) was printed with the high numbers. Of course, we can't actually verify that the backs of the cards had no differences, but it seems likely they did not. We still don't know whether or not the semi-high series had both checklist copyright versions.

Here are some of the images I've accumulated...

1972 Topps Uncut series1 Full Sheet.jpg

1972 Topps Uncut series2 Half Sheet.jpg

1972-Topps-Uncut-series5-Half-Sheet01.jpg1972-Topps-Uncut-series5-Half-Sheet02.jpg

[toppcat]

What's on the semi-high sheets for the high # checklist?

[ALBB]

wow, way back in the day that 1972 T Carew was such a hot card !...everybody needed it..price was crazy....and the Garvey a little bit too

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by toppcat

What's on the semi-high sheets for the high # checklist?

If you look at the last two images I posted, those are the semi-high sheets, going up to #656 Rudy May.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

If you look at the last two images I posted, those are the semi-high sheets, going up to #656 Rudy May.

I was thinking of the reverses but I missed your images the first time. Checklists are never consistent with Topps, I suspect they got glossed over a little in proofreading.