1966 Topps High's - Any uncut sheets or partial sheets known?

[BillP]

Great job everyone. Can the final output be turned into a full color printout for a poster or something that could be framed. I for one would like to have it after all this effort.

billp

[bb66]

That looks great JollyElm !!

[BillP]

I was wondering, after all this work did anyone put this out to Beckett or other areas for the final definitive view on SP's and non Sp's? McCovey, Williams, Adair and Northrup still being touted as SP, will others not.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by BillP

I was wondering, after all this work did anyone put this out to Beckett or other areas for the final definitive view on SP's and non Sp's? McCovey, Williams, Adair and Northrup still being touted as SP, will others not.

Kevvyg1026 did reach out to Beckett but I think it's a losing battle. Those places will never give up the SP next to cards like 1965 Topps Lou Brock and 1966 Topps Billy Williams and Willie McCovey. I did fix all of the incorrect ones on TCDB though !

[G1911]

The truth and what hobby publications insist on putting out is rarely one and the same .

[Kevvyg1026]

Cliff & I have worked diligently on other years & series that contain SPs in order to establish the slit print patterns. Some are easier than others to recreate.


For example, we completed several series from 1962, 1963, and 1965, the 5th series from 1966, a couple series from 1968, and are currently working on a couple series from 1969, but the 6th series in 1965, 1966, and 1967 are difficult because we have found only a limited amount of uncut or sufficiently miscut material.

For 1962, the SPs in print guides aligned, but certainly in 1965, they do not. Perhaps one day, the guides will wise up.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

For 1962, the SPs in print guides aligned, but certainly in 1965, they do not. Perhaps one day, the guides will wise up.

Only if we create our own I'd say.

[deweyinthehall]

These posts remind me I need to ask these general questions - 1) how do we know the difference between slit As and Bs when looking at any given 11x12 half sheet? 2) When initially printed, slits A and B of any series were attached down the middle, forming essentially a single 22x12 full sheet with a wide white "gutter" down the middle, and they were cut vertically along this "gutter" and fed individually into a cutting machine?

Thanks - I've started compiling my own collection of sheet images and these answers, particularly about which is A and which is B will help. I have 3 half-sheets from 1978, and each is clearly marked along one of the vertical margins "slit A" or "slit B", but it seems that in many cases this information is not present on sample sheets or images we have of older sheets.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

These posts remind me I need to ask these general questions - 1) how do we know the difference between slit As and Bs when looking at any given 11x12 half sheet? 2) When initially printed, slits A and B of any series were attached down the middle, forming essentially a single 22x12 full sheet with a wide white "gutter" down the middle, and they were cut vertically along this "gutter" and fed individually into a cutting machine?

Thanks - I've started compiling my own collection of sheet images and these answers, particularly about which is A and which is B will help. I have 3 half-sheets from 1978, and each is clearly marked along one of the vertical margins "slit A" or "slit B", but it seems that in many cases this information is not present on sample sheets or images we have of older sheets.

You are right, kevvyg1026 and I refer to the two random Slits as A or B or 1 and 2 just to differentiate them, there is usually no way of knowing which one is actually A and which one is actually B.