1955-1969 Topps Virtual Series Sheets

[deweyinthehall]

Once again, owing to the dogged research of others, here is a faux slit from the 1964 6th series.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

Once again, owing to the dogged research of others, here is a faux slit from the 1964 6th series.

Great work as always! The Baumann row, Angels Rookie Stars row, and Cardinals Rookie Stars row are 4x, the Romano row, Colts Rookie Stars row, Virdon row, and G Thomas row are 3x.

[bb66]

That looks great. Thanks for the info!

[Kevvyg1026]

Yes, this was one of the harder ones to reconstruct. Fortunately, there were many miscuts for the 1964 6th series, which enabled us to piece together the patterns.

However, the 6th series from both 1965 and 1966, continue to be highly problematic, and may be impossible to reconstruct unless some uncut material magically appears.

[stevepoland]

It seems like all of these virtual sheets exist except for Series 3.

Are all of these virtual sheets posted somewhere on a website to view? I'm interested in Series 1 of 1969 at the moment. Thanks!

[Kevvyg1026]

I am not aware of any site where all of the work is published for the reconstructed sheets. And yes, all series layouts for 1969 are now known, except for series3.

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[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by stevepoland

It seems like all of these virtual sheets exist except for Series 3.

Are all of these virtual sheets posted somewhere on a website to view? I'm interested in Series 1 of 1969 at the moment. Thanks!

There are four 1961-1969 Series sheets Kevin and I haven’t finished, 1965 6th Series is impossible, 1966 6th Series is impossible, 1966 4th Series is very frustrating but we are only about seven cards from finishing it (of course the Tommy Helms card is a huge hold up), and 1969 3rd Series is a huge project. We know the ten leading cards of each row on the 1969 3rd Series and most of the right edge cards, the order of each Slit, and we have several combos of the cards in the interior but it’s just a huge blank hole in the interior. I’m sure JMoran or Kevin have scans of the 1969 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Series Slits and can post scans. ETA Kevin just did.

[Kevvyg1026]

To add to Cliff's comments:

For 1960, we know all of the cards in the ten unique rows for series 1, but not the slit patterns. Series 2 and series 3 are just about impossible to reconstruct, series 4, 5, & 7 slits are known, and 4 of the six rows from series 6 are known.

I have also attempted to reconstruct the series from 1957 to 1959, and can post that progress, if interested.

[Kevvyg1026]

The 1969 series 3 layout is difficult to reconstruct for the following reasons:

a. There are 10 different rows, containing 110 cards.
b. There are not very many uncut partial panels (2 to my knowledge, with 18 cards).
c. There are not a lot of significant horizontal miscuts, which makes it difficult to tie vertical strings together.
d. The design of the cards requires a very significant miscut in order to get the information required to match up.

Having said that, Cliff and I (mainly Cliff!) have been able to put together a probable layout for the two slits, and place 82 of the 110 cards. The last few cards to place will be difficult.

The ten unique rows are headed by:

A. Harrelson
B. Hunter
C. Willis
D. Jerry May
E. Ricketts
F. Cottier
G. Jarvis
H. Kekich
I. Schultz
J. Weiss

The pattern for one slit is: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, A, B, I, J while the other looks like: H, A, B, I, J, C, D, E, F, G, E, F.

Hence the four rows headed by Harrelson, Hunter, Ricketts, & Cottier are the 3x rows, while the other six rows were 2x. FYI: the Reggie Jackson card, 260, is on one of the 3x rows.