1955-1970 Topps Virtual Series Sheets

[Cliff Bowman]

I just now looked, Kevin and I have reconstructed the 1962 Topps 1st, 4th, 6th, and 7th Series so apparently there are already known scans or pics of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Series. The rows in the 7th Series are already known we just figured out the order of both Slits. The 1962 4th Series has already been shown in this thread, so hopefully the 1st, 6th, and 7th will eventually be shown here. Full complete sheets of 1961 1st and 7th, 1963 3rd, and 1964 6th still need to be shown too.

[stevepoland]

I haven't seen the scans/pics of 1962 3rd series (Mantle). I'd love to know the order of both Slits if anyone finds this.

[Kevvyg1026]

Here are some of the series I have. A recap: (each row has 11 cards).

Series 1 has 110 cards, so 4 rows are printed 3x each, while the remaining 6 rows are printed 2x each.

Series 2, 3,and 4 have 88 different cards, so each row is printed 3x each across the two slits. One slit will have 4 rows 2x and four rows 1x each, while the other slit will reverse that.

Series 5, 6, & 7 have 77 different cards each. For these series, there are 3 rows printed 4x each, and four rows printed 3x each.

Cliff & I have created the layouts for both slits of series 1, 5, 6, and 7 based on miscuts, uncut material, etc. I haven't seen that info made into a visual layout, although we have it in Excel format.

1962_series 2.jpg

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[stevepoland]

Nice! Question- How do you know that Series 3 1962 sheet is Slit A?

I presume Slit A is left side of a full sheet?

[king11]

Here's a photo (I don't own it) of the other Series 3 slit from 1962.

[Kevvyg1026]

Unless we find a miscut with a distinguishing mark indicating slit a or b, we just call one of them A and the other B. Perhaps I should just say one slit looks like blah blah blah while the other looks like etc.

[wpeters]

I found this at a flea market and was wondering what it was. It is blank backed. Thanks.

[Kevvyg1026]

Nice find on that uncut panel. It is from the 1966 series 5 print sheet. It certainly would have save Cliff and me some work when we were reconstructing that 5th series sheet. LOL

These are five cards cut from the Julian Javier row. They come from columns 7 thru 11 of that row.

My guess is that this is a printer waste strip that was discarded but someone salvaged it from the waste bin. Other thoughts?

[stevepoland]

btw, this 1962 Series 3 "slit A", is for sale by this guy. It's the pic above, which is a partial. https://www.preciouspaper.com/collec...-mickey-mantle

[Cliff Bowman]

This is for deweyinthehall to show how Topps welded 1962 cards together with different wood grain patterns on the 132 card sheets.

[Kevvyg1026]

As Cliff pointed out in a previous post, cards in 1962 can sometimes be located above or below a card that has a different wood grain pattern. Those cards often can be found with a "weld" line between them, as he showed in the Maris miscut.

In the 1962 series 7, a 77 card series, the 7 rows are:
A Gernert
B Schaffer
C Rigney
D Nicholson
E Rookie Stars
F Henry
G Osborne

and the pattern we proposed requires that a top line be found on cards from rows A & B, while a bottom line would be found on cards from rows A, E, & G.

A search on ebay does indeed show those lines exist on cards from the appropriate rows. Conversely, I have not founds cards from rows C, D, or F with such lines.

Here are examples of a card from row A (#528, T Lown), showing that line at both the top and the bottom of the card. It is at the top of the card where row E and row A are melded, and it is at the bottom where row A melds with row B.

Hopefully, it is obvious that the wood grain patterns do not match when this melding occurs.

[Kevvyg1026]

1962_528_BL.jpg

1962_528_TL.jpg

[deweyinthehall]

Here is a mock-up of one of the 1962 1st series slits, based upon the detective work of others.

Cards with colored borders, particularly where the colors are variated, as with these woodies, are extremely hard to match up, and the fact that any images you can find are all slightly different - off-center, tilt cuts, etc. - mean that this image is best appreciated from a distance.

If you zoom in it will likely ruin your eyes.

Happy Thanksgiving!