View Single Post
  #6  
Old 09-16-2008, 05:01 PM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default 1974 Topps Action Emblem Question

Posted By: Dave Hornish

Bob: The Cardboard ones do not have backing and are not scored.

Here is a pic of a Cardboard back:



My cloth version is scored and has backing. You can tell it is cloth even in pictures. I suspect you have the glossy ones and I may have found a pic of those. It also shows the Rub Off Game cards that came with it.



Compare the scans to my Cloth version (Cloth on left, Cardboard on right:



And there is a Football proof version as well:




There also appear to be three wrappers for this set:

1) "Cloth Stickers" version

2) "Stickers" version

3) "2 Glossy 1 Cloth" version

Here are scans of the first two, I did not save the last and cannot find it on the web right now. I believe #2 may be a transition wrapper. It is also possible the set was issued in '73 and '74; there has always been disagreement over the date.

1)- a wrapper and pack:

:



2) Note the word "Cloth" is gone



3) Need a scan of this one!


Reply With Quote