Hardest to Find Topps Card?

[savedfrommyspokes]

For me, the 1969 567 no black outline is one of the toughest variations to find. Second for me is the 73 Kaline with the Band-Aid on forehead card....it has been tough for me to find also. Third toughest for me would be the 68 WL McCormick.....3 are currently listed on ebay now. I can not remember seeing a 69 567 variation show up online (ebay, comc, etc) in the past year...outside of Darren's BST thread this card seems to be nonexistent.

[Cliff Bowman]

The printing error versions of 1961 Jim Golden, 1963 Ken Retzer, 1967 Aurelio Monteagudo, 1967 Dick Nen, 1969 Pirates Rookie Stars, and a couple from the 80's, 1985 Jorge Orta, 1986 Terry Puhl. I only own one of these .

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

The printing error versions of 1961 Jim Golden, 1963 Ken Retzer, 1967 Aurelio Monteagudo, 1967 Dick Nen, 1969 Pirates Rookie Stars, and a couple from the 80's, 1985 Jorge Orta, 1986 Terry Puhl. I only own one of these .

Seems like the Golden card used to come up a lot more often on ebay than it does now a days. I have not seen copies of the Retzer or Nen cards, so it would be great to see scans if anyone might have them. Not too familiar with the Orta card either.

Below are my Monteagudo and 69 Pirates RS cards.

Is the missing position on the Nen card somehow related to the missing borders on the Monteagudo card? If so, is there another card in between the two that might also have border issues?

[ALR-bishop]

I guess we are just doing base set stuff and excluding Topps test set issued at retail but not nationally, right

Here are some I found tough. The 1959 Spahn and Sullivan variants are included only because I found the Spahn 1931 clear and Sullivan no circle and no period versions pretty tough

[BillP]

For me it was a decent 57 brooks robinson or 59 Gibson at a reasonable price.

[Cliff Bowman]

The 1985 Topps Jorge Orta is missing black border lines in a large area of the bottom left corner. It was above Jerry Royster on the printing sheet, the Royster can be found missing a large area of black border line in the upper left corner. and is also missing the black 'Topps' in that area. I probably don't have a scan of the Orta anymore, but I will put one up of the Royster when I can. I don't have the Monteagudo but I have the two cards that were on each side of it, Dick Howser and Dick Schofield, I will also put up scans of them when I can. ETA, the Nen and the Monteagudo are on the same sheet but not near each other. I forget who was above the Nen. That sheet can be found by googling '1967 Topps Uncut Sheet'.

[Neal]

Hardest to Find Topps Card?

usually the one I am itching to buy!