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Originally Posted by J.McMurry
Thanks for the reply.
I wonder, why the Green tint background? That Adair up top looks like it's radioactive!
Was Topps' MO to start printing the set in brooklyn,then sub the later series,so as to free them up to start football,etc.?
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I am 95% certain they only made candy and gum (and possibly printed wrappers) in Brooklyn and either trucked or barged in the regularly issued cards to Brooklyn from points outside NYC. They were packaged in Brooklyn is my operating theory. I also think a lot of the misprinted sheets found in the Brooklyn dumpsters,etc. were on the tops and bottoms of stacks of sheets on pallets put on at the point of shipment as protection and then they were discarded at the plant. They may have have some limited card printing capability in Brooklyn too (maybe 24 or 35 card test sheets) even after the move to Duryea but I think the heavy duty press runs were subbed out.
All just an educated guess but I'm pretty sure the majority of cards were printed in Philly/Camden.