Not Exactly Vintage, But Close

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Posted By: James Walker Jr.

I'm working on documenting the 1966 Topps baseball card set graded SGC.

The help I need is trying to find out which variations have been graded. If you have any SGC graded 1966 Topps baseball cards, please email me.

Thanks,
James Walker, Jr.

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Posted By: Hankron

Actually, James, 1966 sounds vintage to me. Saying that vintage can only be anything 1925 and older is a stretch to me. The board name is a bit of a misnomer. It should be 'Antique Baseball Cards.' Traditionally, antique means 100 years or older. But at least 75 or 80 is perfectly acceptable.

Last week I gave a neighborhood 10 year old a beat up 1934 Goudey. After slipping it into his album next to his prized Edgar Martinez Jersey Card he said, "This is now my oldest card. I also have a card from the eighties." In other words, vintage is a relative term.

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Posted By: Todd (nolemmings)

I assume you checked the free SGC pop report. I have not seen any '66 SGC variations for sale, although I just started getting back into this set about six months ago.

I wish you moderate good luck, as I am trying to put the same set together, and while I love competition, I hate it when it costs me money! Todd

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Posted By: runscott

I had always heard that one of the things that made collecting t206's so interesting was all the 'variations'. I had assumed that some variations would occur because the printing process wasn't as reliable back then. But now that time has passed and I have seen enough t206 cards to make a better judgement, it seems to me that there were many more printing "errors" created during the '60s than prior to WWI. Most of the t206 cards we call "errors" were actually printers scrap or problems that were caught prior to production and intended to go in the waste basket. I don't know about cards produced in the '30s-'50s, but I haven't seen too many Goudey problem cards either, and the '33s and '34s in particular seem to be of much higher quality in general than the card produced in the '60s.

On the other hand, those of us who collected cards during the '60s are all too familiar with opening a pack and finding a card with the color registration off by an inch or more, or parts of two different cards printed on one piece of cardboard...even stat backs that didn't match the front at all. I guess this was because packaging was more automated in the '60s, so problems weren't as likely to be found.

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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

"Vintage" in the State of Washington:

For a car to be considered "vintage" in the State of WA and get special (lower) vehicle licensing fees, it must be more than (only) 25 years old.

Yep...bring out your vintage pinto, pacer or gremlin...LOL...

So, in our state, i guess your cards would be vintage, too!