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Old 09-03-2025, 04:56 AM
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Default 165 Topps series 6 reconstruction

This is definitely a very frustrating series to attempt a reconstruction for the reasons that Cliff has already pointed out. Obviously, the individual card placements require a lot of miscuts, and there is really a dearth of those. But even the row patterns for the two slits are difficult to fathom.

For example, we know the 7 header (left edge) cards. These are: Owens, Horlen, Howard, Mathews, Priddy, Miller, and Wills. The miscuts found so far suggest:
a. Horlen is above Owens
b. Horlen is above Miller
c. Howard is above Horlen
d. Priddy is above Owens
e. Owens is above Mathews
f. Mathews is above Wills
g. A red card is above Owens (Note: I suspect that this might simply be a color shift of Priddy).

So there are at least two row changes in the slit patterns.

We are certain that two of the three cards printed 4x cards across the two slits are Horlen & Owens, but the third one is TBD. Could it be Priddy? Howard?

We also know that the four of the 7 trail end (last column) cards are: Dodgers RS (4x), Braves RS (Niekro), Javier, and checklist 7 (small print), and strongly suspect that the other 3 are: Law, Giants RS, Mets RS.

Normally, the checklists are somewhat easy to place because they usually have some unusual features, but in this series, we have not been able to determine adjacent cards to the checklists and therefore, we can't even assign the trail cards to their appropriate header cards.

I hate to give up (yes, I probably am), but unless additional miscuts turn up, or some uncut or wrong back material appears, the printing pattern for this series may be lost to posterity.
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