1968 Topps Milton Bradley help

[etsmith]

Are the white lines only at the top and bottom on vertical cards? Here's a Rod Carew with a white line at the side.

Rod Carew.jpg

[brob28]

Edward, it depends on each cards print sheet placement. The Carew MB card can have a white border on the right side or bottom of the card. The Topps regular issue can have a white border on the right side only. So the card you show can be either issue, to be sure my next step would be to compare the shade of yellow on the back of the card.

[G1911]

That’s the right edge of the sheet; not the border of a hot rod or a football player card. A row only has 1 type on it; all 11 in a row were baseball, football, or cars, not a mixture of them.

[brob28]

This should help Edward. The first image is a partial series 1 sheet of the regular issue, the second image is a re-created MB full sheet.

[etsmith]

Thanks.

[bobsbbcards]

If I bought an unopened “Win-A-Card” game, how many cards would I expect to find inside? Would there be a “complete set” of 132? Would I receive two not-all-that-similar Marichal checklists?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by bobsbbcards

If I bought an unopened “Win-A-Card” game, how many cards would I expect to find inside? Would there be a “complete set” of 132? Would I receive two not-all-that-similar Marichal checklists?

From the SCD article above: "The number of cards per game ranges from 86-105 cards...". A 131 card basic set nor a 132 card master set would be present in a game.

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by etsmith

Are the white lines only at the top and bottom on vertical cards? Here's a Rod Carew with a white line at the side.

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The Carew card in post #40 is a regular Topps card. See that near 90 degree angle where Carew’s top and bottom uniform meet? In that area, in the background where the grass meets the dirt…see the stray red ink spot? That spot is present only on the Topps version. The MB version won’t have that spot or the spot will be super faint. Also, some MB Carew’s do indeed have a white line at the right. It is just a sheet gutter line.

Nearly all MB star cards have a similar “tell” on the front…Aaron, Gibson, Brooks, Namath, Seaver, Mathews, one of the Marichal checklists….and I already let the cat out of the bag on the Ryan. Once you see them, you can’t miss them.

[toppcat]

One thing I've always wondered is whether the salmon backed "Fun Pack" sheet from this era with Who Am I (no coating and some subjects pulled), Hot Rods and Target: Moon cards was prepared for the Win-A-Card Game. maybe as a second series if all went well.