I have 2 1996 Topps Factory sets. Both are the darker color boxes with Mantle cards in the background. One is with the Tri-card stamp and one is not. The one with the Jeter Tri-card stamp (of course) is the one with the tape. Suspecting the worst, I took a hair dryer and heated the tape to remove it and, sure enough, the previous owner had taken out the Jeter Tri-card. That was the main reason I was asking the question.
My factory sets run from 1986 to 2012. I have 3 or 4 that have tape that I suspect are not supposed to have tape. I will be replacing those sometime in the future.
If anybody can put a list together of the sets that come with factory tape and those that don't, I would greatly appreciate it.
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