Show...me...your print variations!

[johnlenhardt]

Thanks Greg. It can time consuming and frustrating when you never can find a version you need. Especially if it done not exist.

[Elberson]

Found another snake skin back to go with the 1967 Topps Owen 582….. 1967 Topps chuck Estrada 537 snake skin back

[jchcollins]

Does anyone know why Topps did obvious "cut lines" some years, but not others? For example you can find them pretty easily on 1962, and then again on 1970 Topps. Other sets not so much; I would not have known they appeared on '66.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Does anyone know why Topps did obvious "cut lines" some years, but not others? For example you can find them pretty easily on 1962, and then again on 1970 Topps. Other sets not so much; I would not have known they appeared on '66.

I believe they are accidental and introduced when the mask for the sheet was made.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Does anyone know why Topps did obvious "cut lines" some years, but not others? For example you can find them pretty easily on 1962, and then again on 1970 Topps. Other sets not so much; I would not have known they appeared on '66.

I can answer that one, in the sixties through at least 1970 Topps made proof sheets in 33 or 44 card blocks, when they assembled 132 card Slits they combined those 33 and 44 card blocks and used the lines to meld the blocks together. On the 1962 cards with lines visible there will always be a different wood grain pattern from the other card showing, on the 1970 cards apparently Topps didn’t want to go through the trouble of airbrushing those lines out.

[Cliff Bowman]

In regards to the horizontal lines on 1970 Topps cards, here is a Slit that repeats four rows three times, there will always be a line separating the four row blocks. For example, Bill Hands will have a line showing on the bottom of miscut cards unless it's the Hands on the bottom row. The card under Hands, Ron Bryant, will have a line at the top of miscut cards unless it's the Bryant on the top row.

[Kevvyg1026]

Here are some cards from other years

1969_600_line.jpg

1968_3_top_line.jpg

67 6 burgess red line 1.jpg

1968_478_top.jpg

1965_598_top_line.jpg

[Kevvyg1026]

Keough is part of an 8 row pattern, meaning 8 rows printed 3x across the sheet. So, one slit will have 4 rows 2x and 4 rows 1x, while the other slit will reverse that pattern.

The row with Keough is at top of one of the slits.

66 4 keough - walker.jpg