1976 Uncut Sheets

[deweyinthehall]

Trying to do a rundown of the 1976 baseball printing sheets.

First, I have images of these 2 unique sheets with Bobby Mitchell and George Brett in the upper left:

[deweyinthehall]

Next I have this sheet with Bill Russell in the upper left...but wait - here's another image of a sheet with the same 132 cards but with the top 6 rows and bottom 6 rows switched. I didn't think there was any variation in row placement from one slit to the next once they stopped printing by series and/or hit the steady 132 unique cards per sheet phase.

Are there similar alternate versions out there of the Mitchell and Brett sheets?

[deweyinthehall]

And here is where it gets really odd - I would have assumed all the traded cards were printing across one full (264 card) sheet.

However, we have these below each featuring 6 unique roses of basic cards, and 2 rows of unique traded cards printed 3 times.

So, either 1) there is a sheet out there with all 12 of these unique card rows and one additional sheet with 132 missing unique cards, or 2) there are two sheets out there - each with the 6 rows from one of these traded sheets plus an additional 6 rows of cards not seen on any of these sheets.

Either way, there remain 132 cards not accounted for across all 6 of these sheets.

What to we think the answers are? Does someone have other sheet images? Is it possible any base cards were either short- or over-printed to account for the traded cards?

And I know it generally received hobby wisdom, but since the 1976 pre-dates my collecting by a couple years - want to confirm that the traded cards didn't make their appearance until later in the summer?

[jmoran19]

NO SP's I'm aware of (132x5 = 660)

Here are the ones your missing. In my notes I have the Rose in top left corner labeled as OPC, that is probably why there are two different layouts. Same with the Aaron in top left corner below. Last photo is a crappy copy of the 132 card sheet that was split up to make the Traded sheets (2). John

[jmoran19]

Attachment 620366

[jmoran19]

2nd attempt

[deweyinthehall]

OK - thanks. This clears it all up.

Using simple, low numbers -
Let's say they print the Torre, Russell, Brett and Mitchell sheets 15 times

Then they print the Briggs sheet 10 times

then each of the two Traded sheet variants 5 times.

Every card, including tradeds, would then have 15 printings.

Just add some zeroes to those and Badda bing, badda boom.

Now I can sleep tonight.