1967 Topps High Numbers

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by rats60

What is your theory on how the sheets look? We know there are 24 rows of 11 on the sheet(s) with 7 unique rows. 3 rows 4 times and 4 rows 3 times works. It has been believed that the Seaver row may be 2 times. Could those 2 DP rows appear 5 times? Or are there more DPs?

I was one of Beckett’s sources for SP information. I owned a partial sheet that contained cards that were believed to be SPs, so as we know if one card on the row was a SP, they all are.

Very interesting as my thought is the Beckett SP and DP info came from the missing A slit. Do you have a record of the array?

[rats60]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Very interesting as my thought is the Beckett SP and DP info came from the missing A slit. Do you have a record of the array?

My partial sheet was the bottom 4 rows of the full sheet that you posted. Those are the cards that I believe were printed 3 times and are SPs, with 22 cards being printed 5 times being DPs and 11 SSPs being printed twice.l

[Cliff Bowman]

A few scans that I found. ETA, I guess you are looking for different tops and bottoms and not sides, if I understand it correctly now.

[toppcat]

I have to check my set later as I don't have any 67 dupes. Don't recall having any miscuts but we'll see. Is it me or does it seem like there are less miscuts in 67 than 66?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by toppcat

I have to check my set later as I don't have any 67 dupes. Don't recall having any miscuts but we'll see. Is it me or does it seem like there are less miscuts in 67 than 66?

I don’t think there are many miscuts in either, and these two years were pretty much the best quality control here. I have a lot of miscut 65’s, and then starting in 1968 it really seems Topps gave up completely on not issuing wildly miscut cards. Before 1965 I think they are relatively more common. Have to factor in that overall total year production generally went up each year

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by G1911

I don’t think there are many miscuts in either, and these two years were pretty much the best quality control here. I have a lot of miscut 65’s, and then starting in 1968 it really seems Topps gave up completely on not issuing wildly miscut cards. Before 1965 I think they are relatively more common. Have to factor in that overall total year production generally went up each year

Yeah, I think there was an uptick in 1968 production then 1969, with four new markets,the numbers went even higher. Topps may have overestimated (look at all the 69 wrappers and cards out there still) and then 70-72 pulled back as those years the highs are a bit harder to find now.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Yeah, I think there was an uptick in 1968 production then 1969, with four new markets,the numbers went even higher. Topps may have overestimated (look at all the 69 wrappers and cards out there still) and then 70-72 pulled back as those years the highs are a bit harder to find now.

I remember the 1968 and 1969 last series cards coming out earlier in the summer. By August, we had all series, but in 1970 we had only received the first 4 series and we were still looking for high numbers in September. If that was the case across the country, stores would have ordered more of the 7th series cards in 68-69 since kids were still out of school. I don’t think production was less in 70-72, just in the late series due to late release.