Reconstructing the 1963 Topps 6th and 7th Series Sheets

[Kevvyg1026]

In an earlier post, you referred to a recurring print defect which affects multiple cards in the yellow banner blue inset row. Can you describe what that is ?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Kevvyg1026

In an earlier post, you referred to a recurring print defect which affects multiple cards in the yellow banner blue inset row. Can you describe what that is ?

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=213736

[Kevvyg1026]

Thank you, I found it just a little bit ago.

I also found a reference to a wrong back Crandal/Regan in that messageboard. That allows me to place both in C6, which then allows me to put tartabull in C2 and daniels in C7. So, I believe the R/Y, R/G, and Y/R strings are now complete.

The Y/B line is missing the placement of two cards (C7 & C10) with the two cards being 450 & 454.

Finally, the WB of Tartabull (449) and Worthington (556) probably allows you to place 556 in C10 of the R/G line for Series 7.

[Kevvyg1026]

Here's an ad which ran in the Aug 3, 1963 issue of The Sporting News. Please note the series numbering for both series 6 & 7. Also, based on the date progression of earlier ads, it would appear that the series release dates were before:

Series 1 - Feb 23
Series 2 - March 23
Series 3 - Apr 6
Series 4 - Apr 20
Series 5 - May 4
Series 6 - June 1
Series 7 - June 15

Aug_3_1963_pg_28.JPG

[bb66]

Some of those Series release dates are very surprising to me. I thought some of those would be much later in the summer.Maybe the Sporting news holds additional info. Thanks for the info.

[Kevvyg1026]

Those dates come from ads placed by Marshal Oreck. However, here is an ad from The Trading Company, dated July 6 which enunciated that all 7 series were available.

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[Kevvyg1026]

Here's a scan of the 6th series checklist (#431, Yellow banner) that was most likely issued with the series 5 printing. The red banner version of this checklist was probably issued with the 6th series printing.

1963_431_yellow_marked.JPG

And here is a 7th series Clemente (#540) with Hank Fischer (#554) showing adjacent to it.

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