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10-17-2023, 01:21 PM
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Series by series card number breakdown for 1955 Topps Baseball
Do you happen to know the card numbers for Series 2 and Series 3, respectively?
Per your mention below, is Series 2: 111-150 (or 111-160) And Series 3: 151-210 (or 161-210) ? Thanks! Quote:
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10-17-2023, 04:27 PM
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Series 2 presumably has these hold backs, as they don't seem to be more difficult to find like the final series. It seems to me series 2 probably catches us up to 160, as 161+ do seem to me to be a little bit tougher to find. So series 2 I expect will have 50 cards + the holdbacks - possibly a handful of numbers held back again that were pushed into series 3, making for another odd sheet any way we slice it. Series 3 I expect to have the 50 cards 161-210 printed twice each (4 for the DP's that replaced the missing card numbers). It's possible 151-160 were included in series 3, these 10 cards are sometimes bucketed as a different group and something unique may have happened there, possibly mirroring 90-99. I suspect, contrary to the hobby opinion, that it wasn't really contractual issues with 4 players that led to the no prints, but numbers just being held back as they were in earlier series to issue later, like Topps did throughout 1953. I suspect this set may not have been intended originally to end at 210. I hope a sheet will surface and we might be able to do more than make reasonable deductions. This is a really fun set.
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04-14-2025, 01:19 PM
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1955 series 1 missing card
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04-14-2025, 01:27 PM
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a few more mc of the "missing" 55s
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04-14-2025, 02:58 PM
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1955 Topps missing cards
Orienting the cards similar to that from 1960 (i.e., name banner at right, number on back at top of card), I think Bishop (96) is below Bolling (91) and Ray Crone (149) is to the right of Bishop. So there is definite evidence of the skip numbering.
1955_miscuts_missing.jpg
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#6
04-19-2025, 03:36 AM
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Cliff and I have been examining miscuts for Topps BB cards from 1955, in the hopes that we can re-create the slit patterns for cards 91-99 and 110 to 210. Although the gathering of the evidence is not complete, it appears that the miscuts we've found support a 2nd series printing of cards numbered 91-99 plus 110-160 (60 total distinct cards) with another print pattern consisting of cards 161-210 (with 4 DPs to account for the 4 cards not printed).
In other words, any miscut we've found that we've been able to identify from cards 91-99 and 110 to 210 is adjacent to another card from that number group. Similarly, all miscuts we've been able to identify from cards numbered 161-210 are adjacent to another card from this same group.
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