Who spilled blue ink all over my 1976 high numbers?

[Cliff Bowman]

That’s awesome! I definitely need J R Richard and there are some I wasn’t aware of like Thurman Munson, I will need to go through what I have tonight to see who all I need.

[Harliduck]

Cliff you are correct...it's the YANKESS #17, not the Mets. Here it is -

[Cliff Bowman]

Here are the highlights (or lowlights ) of the haul I got from harliduck (John Otto), he was happy to unload them and I was happy to take them .

[71buc]

This was the first set I ordered as a 12 year-old. I ordered them from Renata Glasson virtually the whole set was spattered like this. It was the last time I ordered a set from them.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by 71buc

This was the first set I ordered as a 12 year-old. I ordered them from Renata Glasson virtually the whole set was spattered like this. It was the last time I ordered a set from them.

I agree, I would have been pissed if I bought a set in 1976 and 200 of the cards had a print defect of splattered blue ink dots. I was nine in 1976 and it was the first year I ever bought a pack of baseball cards from a 7-11 (or Majik Market, it's been a while) in Jacksonville FL, 1977 was my first year of full tilt collecting. Topps must not have realized it until they had already printed several hundred or even a couple of thousand of the defective 264 card sheets and decided to release them anyway rather than destroy them and have another print run of the corrected sheet. It may have been a time issue also, they might have had a deadline that they had to meet. I would say over the years the majority of these have been tossed, the worst ones like Knowles, Porter, and D'Acquisto are impossible to find now. ETA, here are better scans of the A slit and the B slit of the 264 card full sheet that was printed with the flaw, I have never seen a card affected from the first four vertical rows of the A slit.

[ALR-bishop]

Mike- if only you had a time machine you could go back and save all those blue dots for Cliff… and me. Wait until they catch on and the value soars in the years to come 😎. Goes to show the lack of foresight in 9 and 12 year olds

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Mike- if only you had a time machine you could go back and save all those blue dots for Cliff… and me. Wait until they catch on and the value soars in the years to come 😎. Goes to show the lack of foresight in 9 and 12 year olds

I think 71buc and harliduck would have 76 Topps Blue Dots burning parties if they had a choice .