1958 topps series size

[BillP]

While looking through an old becket magazine the other day I was focused on the series size in the 1958 topps issue. There are several anomalies that I thought I would bring up:

1958 - 4 short print cards in the 4th series. why? what was replaced in? Series was 34 cards, so 30 x2 and 4 x 1 = 64. That's an odd sheet number. Also the all stars, Mantle and Musial Triple prints 19 x 1 and 2 x 3 = 25. Point, there have to be other SP's or TP's to make this work.

Has anyone seen an uncut sheet to help answer this?

thx billp

[ALR-bishop]

Bill---hopefully some of the print experts here can help out on this. I do know that card 145, although listed as Ed Bouchee on the checklist on the back of card 44, the Senators team card, was never issued after Bouchee was suspended by MLB. # 145 is blank on subsequent checklists in the set

[steve B]

Think more in terms of rows of 11. The sheets would have been 11x12 and on the press were actually two sheets side by side.

So more like
34 cards --- 3 rows of 11 repeated 8x= 24 rows, so 8 sets of 33 cards. The other 3 would have been replacements for one card in a row 4x each on one sheet.

Or some similar layout.

That stuff gets a bit complicated.

Steve B

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Bill---hopefully some of the print experts here can help out on this. I do know that card 145, although listed as Ed Bouchee on the checklist on the back of card 44, the Senators team card, was never issued after Bouchee was suspended by MLB. # 145 is blank on subsequent checklists in the set

This poor kid:

1958 Topps #44 - Washington Senators Team [Poor*to*Fair]
Courtesy of COMC.com

[ALR-bishop]

A Bob Lemke special. Poor kid is right. Ed was very naughty

[toppcat]

I have a whole bunch on the 1958 SP and XP here: http://toppsarchives.blogspot.com/se...pps%20Baseball