Who spilled blue ink all over my 1976 high numbers?

[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 .

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

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

Haha...I'm enjoying my new clean set...

As said, just really cool that I had something that two collectors I have admired for a long time were interested in. Cool deal...

[Kutcher55]

Wow great thread. Those cards are trippy. I think the 76 set is underrated to put it mildly. Great design and miles better than the much ballyhooed 75 set to put it less mildly.