How many to a series? Let's see some 1955 Bowman miscuts and uncut material

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72 Nichols

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And 65 Zimmer. I cannot find 73 or 74 showing a 1-64 card, so it seems this second streak ends here.

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57 Bob Friend, bordering either a 65+ card or be an end card. End cards appear with numerous colors of lines at the miscut borders, beyond the light yellowish and red cutting lines that sometimes were present and sometimes not.

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And 50 Ford/60 Slaughter with the same effect. There are numerous colors to Whitey's left, including purple, yellow, red, black, brown and more.

Both of them look bug eyed in the photos....

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Cole #28
Schoendiest #29
Sarni #30
Darnell #39
Corwin #122

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5 more!

25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39 and 40 are all confirmed as border cards now, so presumably the rest in this range we can locate this way.

122 Corwin pairs with the 121 Crawford from earlier - presumably there will be a few more in this number range.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by G1911

And 50 Ford/60 Slaughter with the same effect. There are numerous colors to Whitey's left, including purple, yellow, red, black, brown and more.

Both of them look bug eyed in the photos....

That slight print offset does make their eyes stick out.

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

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Originally Posted by bnorth

That slight print offset does make their eyes stick out.

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

I don't know what was up with the cutting this year, but it is Bowman's worst cut issue by far. The 1954 footballs and 1955 footballs (which I believe were the sets printed before and after this issue; the non-sports issues dying out around this time) are both much better cut. I store my 326 set without sleeves, and handling the stack really makes clear just how poorly cut it is. I'll have to check my Mays, it's one of my favorite poses of him.

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And 32 Post exists:

[jiw98]

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.[/QUOTE]

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jiw98

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.[/QUOTE]



Nice, I finally ended up buying a SGC graded one to crack out for my ungraded set.

Funny story, I bought my Mantle and Mays from the same dealer at the same time here on Net54. The Mays was a full 1/4 inch shorter. I emailed him and he told me to return it and he would sent me another. The next one was only 1/8 of a inch shoter than the Mantle.