Random Topps questions...

[jchcollins]

I'll try to make a long story short, but in essence - since recently deciding I wanted to find a cheaper vintage project, and landing on going after the '62 Green Tints and regular variations in the 2nd series again - some of this led me to doing some research on those, the Topps "contract printers" (Zabel and possibly Stecher-Traung of Rochester, NY for the '62 Greenies...) and well next thing I knew I was just down a rabbit hole of other Topps questions. Can anyone (Dave H. maybe?) answer any of the following random questions?

*From what I can gather, Topps closed up the production shop in Brooklyn in 1965, moved to Duryea, PA - and then first made cards there in 1966. Is this correct? I know from other posts and videos for sure that at least '67 Topps cards were made in Duryea, but for some reason they didn't get around to changing the address on Topps baseball wrappers until the 1970 packs came out. Any clue why this was? Did Topps perhaps maintain an official front office in the old space in Brooklyn until then and not fully move everything over until 1970? Or were they just slow to change the wrapper address?

*Back to the "overstock printer" issues from and Zabel and others: I'm assuming the answer here is no, but is there a way to tell a "Brooklyn" or "Duryea" card today vs. one that perhaps Zabel made in Philadelphia, or some other printer made somewhere else? Assuming also that the overflow printers just made the sheets and then either shipped them back to Topps in Brooklyn or later Duryea to cut them?

The whole process of this kind of stuff and the questions it evokes fascinates me. If only some of these cards could talk...