1967 Topps 6th Series

[Gorditadogg]

I'm telling ya Mark, just take a deep breath and go on and buy that Shaw.

https://www.deanscards.com/search?s=1967+470

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

I'm telling ya Mark, just take a deep breath and go on and buy that Shaw.

https://www.deanscards.com/search?s=1967+470

I like that the grade 6 Shaw is half the price of his grade 5 Shaw.

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by G1911

I like that the grade 6 Shaw is half the price of his grade 5 Shaw.

And the "grade" 4 and 4.5 are more than the 6 as well!

I actually found a half dozen 6th series commons - including Shaw - last night at Mantlerulz on eBay for decent prices. Grabbed them for $40 shipped, which tells you they were priced a lot nicer than most.

[Rich Klein]

Also -- these cards were interestingly released around the country. The first sale I made at the 1984 NSCC was to a St. Louis dealer who was always short on those cards. Apparently they were not released in St. Louis but the 7th series was so there were always a lot of the high series in St. Louis back in the day. Makes sense as the Cardinals would win the WS that season.

So I would wager the production of the 6th series was not as high as you might think for a semi-high series. At one point I also heard that Tim McCarver #475 was always an instant sell-out

[rats60]

I remember the 6th series cards were always popular in St Louis because of low distribution there. These were all shipped to Southern California. I was surprised to find out that these carried any premium at all. We had more 6th series cards in 1967 (and no 7th) than any other series. I think the issue was more irregular distribution than lack of production.

[Kevvyg1026]

I am not aware of any uncut 6th series material, and the dearth of miscut and wrong back material has made me leery of attempting to reconstruct the sheet. The series does indeed have 77 cards, so the likelihood is that there are 33 cards printed 4x each and 33 cards printed 3x each (i.e., the SPs).

I know that Peterson, 495, is above Fisher, 533 at one point on the sheet, and that Shaw, 470 has a WB of Dodgers team (503).

The image I have seen for the 5th series sheet suggests that the no ear version of the checklist 6 was issued in series 5 while the ear version was probably issued in series 6 printing.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by rats60

I remember the 6th series cards were always popular in St Louis because of low distribution there. These were all shipped to Southern California. I was surprised to find out that these carried any premium at all. We had more 6th series cards in 1967 (and no 7th) than any other series. I think the issue was more irregular distribution than lack of production.

IIRC correctly (and I may not be) some of the distro issues may have been related to Southland Corp. I believe Buck Barker also mentions somewhere the St. Louis distro issues but I cannot find my SCD tearsheets that mention this presently.

[Collectorsince62]

As a lifelong St. Louisan who collected cards back in '67 and continues collecting to this day, I can absolutely verify the scarcity of '67T series 6 and the abundance of series 7 in St. Louis. We were buying 7th series packs like crazy at the time hoping to find those elusive cards from the penultimate series. Ended up with plenty of Brooks Robinsons and those two rookie cards people seem to like, but never even saw a McCarver until I bought the entire 6th series from Bruce Yeko at Wholesale Cards in the mid-70's. Set me back a whopping $5.95 (same price by the way as the Fleer Ted Williams set w/o #68, from the same order).

I have been advertising in local papers for decades, and purchased many collections, but have never once come across any series 6 cards. I still find series 7 cards occasionally, which certainly makes the situation a lot more tolerable.