Can someone educate me with 67 topps baseball short prints

jeff8877

Hi guys...not sure why I cant figure this out. The SMR magazine and online guides dont list which cards are SPs...they just list a different price for commons in one line at the top of the set.

In the Beckett baseball card plus magazine it lists these as Double Prints ..534,537,539,547,548,551,554,556,559,562,564,566,582,588,
589,596,599,601,608

So does this mean that every card not listed as a DP is a SP? From the pricing, this does not seem to be true. Is there really 3 categories for the high numbers...normal printed, double printed and short printed??

Any help appreciated

Jeff

jmoran19

I think this is the info your looking for. There are 76 cards in the 7th/high series, #609 minus #533 if I did the math right (that's shakey as I'm a former CPA). As was common for most series, the 7th series checklist was printed on both the 6th series and the 7th series sheets, therefore make it 77 high number cards.

The standard layout for an uncut sheet back then was 12 rows of 11 cards. I have a photo of the uncut sheet for this series and 5 rows of cards are printed twice and 2 rows of cards are printed once. The 22 single print (SP) cards (2x11) include Tom Seaver's rookie card. The other 55 cards (5x11) are the double printed (DP) cards, although the 7th series checklist is at least a triple print.

Email me at jmoran19j@hotmail.com if you would like me to send you the photo. John.

jeff8877

Thanks John...sent you an email for the pic. I get it now, have been trying to figure this out for a long while. Looks like your an Angel fan, I am an OC guy and the Angels have been my team since the 60s. Going to be tough to get past Oakland down the stretch.

Jeff

bxb

I have reviewed the uncut sheet in detail. Assuming that this sheet proportunately represents the entire production of Topps 1967 7th series, what it indicates is that the Beckett guide is, and always has been, wrong!

There are clearly 7 different rows of 11 cards each. The complete uncut sheet however consists of 12 rows of 11 cards each. Therefore 5 of the 7 different rows are produced in duplicate on each sheet, and 2 rows are not. So 55 cards are double printed, and 22 cards are single printed.

The correct listing of single printed cards is: 534, 539, 542, 547, 552, 553, 554, 556, 558, 562, 563, 564, 568, 581, 586, 588, 591, 596, 597, 601, 603, and 607.

All the other 55 cards are double printed.

With thanks to John Moran for providing the photo.