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Old 02-16-2011, 09:41 PM
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Default Color of backs on 54 Topps ad panel

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Originally Posted by Bob Lemke View Post
I see that the sticker on the back of the 1954 strip mentions "FOUR COLOR BACKS". Am I seeing things or is the type in the player bio and the cartoon captions actually blue on these samples? Those are black on the issued cards.
Hi Bob:

Fred McKie here. The scan just LOOKS blue for the player bios. It is actually black.

I guess the four colors are Red, White, Black, Green, although I see some brown and gray in the back Inside Baseball three panel on the Hamner card.
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