New member with a 67 baseball question.

[Ease]

Welcome Jim, and good luck with your set!

[Rich Klein]

On the left and Carew RC on the right are all cards we consider Double Prints. Explains a lot why in that row apparently was printed several times on that sheet compared to the other rows.

Rich

[mintacular]

Could you explain that? Are you saying that most full sheets the far left and far right columns would "border" the inside cards and thus are dp's???

[jmoran19]

On the sheet I posted 5 or the rows are printed twice and 2 of the rows are printed once (row 7 with Hank Bauer and 8 with the Seaver RC).

This alone does not determine the SP's as the other half of the 264 card sheet may have these rows printed 2 times and different rows printed once.

[Leon]

Hey Jim
I just want to say "welcome to Net54baseball." If I can ever be of assistance let me know. I collected late 60's and early 70's as a kid but now am strictly pre-1949, so I stay mostly on the other (dark) side. Take care now....

[tigers6884]

Thanks for the welcome Leon.

Looking at this sheet makes me wonder even more about the other half. For example, in the Standard Catalog it shows Robinson as a SP but this sheet shows it as a DP.

Others are listed as DP such as Klippstein. Looking at the sheet shows this card only once. To be fair to the Standard Catalog, unless both sides of the sheet can be viewed we really cannot tell.

I have seen full sheets of other series where the RH and LH sides were inverted. In other words, cards short printed on the RH were double printed on the LH sheet to even up the printing.

This is easily done on a series of 88 cards (87 cards and the previous checklist). 88 x 3=264 so each card is printed 3 x.

Another interesting point is that the 67 6th series was also only 77 cards (76 cards and the previous checklist) so that led to some potential short prints. The 6th series does not seem to be mentioned like the 7th series high numbers.

Jim

[toppcat]

Here is a link to a prior discussion on these:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ps+High+Number

I have to check but don't believe the 6th series was subject to "checklist lagging" a method where Topps would have checklists showing Series that were either 11 or 22 cards less than what was being printed on each sheet (long story) allowing them to preview some cards from the purported next series to keep the kiddies buying. '67 seems to be the first year they abandoned that practice since commencing it in the late 50's and it led to some funkiness after series 5 as some guides show the 6th series as having triple prints; not sure that's right but it indicates something was up. Don't forget though that the semi-high 6th series is more abundant today than the true highs. Some 67 high numbers are quite hard to track down.

No matter what, every image of a 67 high number half sheet is always of the same half.