1973 - Uncut

[Cliff Bowman]

I hate that style of sheet printing, I think Topps did the same thing in 1970 with some sheets.

[whiteymet]

Speaking of 73 Topps, does anyone have the color Topps advertising sheet for the set? As I recall it looked like the cards were standing up on astroturf

I had a bunch of the adverting sheets back in the 70's and my memory tells me I recall seeing a card on it that was not issued.

Either a card not issued or a different photo of a player than was issued on his card.

If anyone has this sheet please post it here and look it over to see if you can see the card I am talking about.

[jmoran19]

Doing from memory, I think the sheet with all 132 cards is an OPC sheet. Will check files

John

[jmoran19]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

Doing from memory, I think the sheet with all 132 cards is an OPC sheet. Will check files

John

Ok if not OPC the sheet with all time HR leaders in rows 1 and 7 is a slit A sheet. Slit b would be the bottom half of the sheet with all 132 cards printed twice in 66 card blocks.

The full 132 card series 1 sheet looks to say silt A1. Topps did issue wax packs with combined series one and series 2 cards so maybe the right half of the 264 card sheet was the series 2 132 card sheet as seen below but note the label says "side B1" not slit b....

[jmoran19]

1973 advertising sheets i have photos of

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

1973 advertising sheets i have photos of

Thanks for posting the Topps ad slicks and all the comments and detective work. Nice to know my memory still works.... sometimes!

[deweyinthehall]

Another observation about the cards used to illustrate the sales sheet - a distinct lack of start power. No Bench, Rose, Yaz, Mays, Aaron, Frank, Brooks, Kaline, Hunter, Blue, Gibson, Carlton...

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Speaking of 73 Topps, does anyone have the color Topps advertising sheet for the set? As I recall it looked like the cards were standing up on astroturf

I had a bunch of the adverting sheets back in the 70's and my memory tells me I recall seeing a card on it that was not issued.

Either a card not issued or a different photo of a player than was issued on his card.

If anyone has this sheet please post it here and look it over to see if you can see the card I am talking about.

That A’s player in the upper left corner on the advertising sheets of jmoran sure doesn’t look familiar.

[deweyinthehall]

Pretty sure the Indians player to the right of Holtzman isn't in the set either.

[Deertick]

I love how they have miscut cards as part of their advertising! Troof.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Deertick

I love how they have miscut cards as part of their advertising! Troof.

What blows my mind is the non existent card of the Indians pitcher next to Ken Holtzman that deweyinthehall spotted is badly miscut.

[JollyElm]

Late on a Friday, the Topps art department was all ready to hit happy hour when the manager said, "Aww, screw this ad. Just toss that fake Indian you cut out with the scissors there and take the picture. No one will ever notice."

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

What blows my mind is the non existent card of the Indians pitcher next to Ken Holtzman that deweyinthehall spotted is badly miscut.

Well, at least Topps was consistent from proofs to the production runs... Centering on the 1973 set is horrible. There's a pretty good video on YouTube about the idiosyncrasies of the 73T set here https://youtu.be/kGRRPIVbiUI

[deweyinthehall]

Originally Posted by Deertick

I love how they have miscut cards as part of their advertising! Troof.

They wanted to convey that authentic mid-70s Topps look and feel!