Topps Venezuelan Question

[quitcrab]

Thanks…. Anyone have a wrapper? I assume they where distributed in packs.

[Cliff Bowman]

I have seen a few pics of cards with pieces of the wrapper stuck to the back but I didn't keep any of the scans.

[ALBB]

yea,
id love to see a wrapper from any of those years

[here2havefun]

I've never seen a pack or wrapper from any of the Topps sets. There are unopened packs from the Venezuelan league sticker sets from the 70's and 80's, they were paper packs. Here's two:

1972:
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...?itemid=104444

1987:
https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=88006

[quitcrab]

Thanks for the pictures of the packs.
Now we need to find a 1959-68 wrapper!

So did Topps put out the Venzualen cards, or are they a black market product of Venezuela with no permission from Topps ?

[Cliff Bowman]

If it was bootleg and unauthorized I would find it odd that Topps let it go on for ten years (1959-1968) and that would also mean that someone was backdooring all of the materials needed to print those sheets to Venezuela.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

So did Topps put out the Venzualen cards, or are they a black market product of Venezuela with no permission from Topps ?

Found this article, which suggests that the production was a deliberate partnership:

https://lifetimetopps.wordpress.com/...lan-1959-1968/

This article was also enlightening:

https://oldbaseball.com/m/refs/Venezuelan.pdf

[here2havefun]

1967 set is an anomoly, it's been speculated for years that Topps had nothing to do with it. It's most likely that set was produced by Sport Grafico, a sport magazine in Venezuela. Here's a great blog post about the set: https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2020/...the-caribbean/