1968 Topps football virtual uncut sheets

nearmint

Here are more virtual uncut sheets for your viewing pleasure:

1968 Topps football virtual uncut sheets

jmoran19

NICE! Love your work.

And your right about the printing of the second series. A true uncut sheet is actually 264 cards. The 2nd series sheet you created would be one half of it, the other half would have rows 5 thru 8 on your sheet as rows 1 thru 4 AND rows 9 thru 12. Rows 5 thru 8 would be rows 1 thru 4 (and 9 thru 12) on the sheet you created.

Here's an example of a 88 card full sheet for reference, John

nearmint

Thanks for posting the 264-card sheet, John. That's really interesting.

Do you (or does anyone) know what the cutting process was like? They evidently cut the 264-card sheets in half to get the 132-card sheets I commonly see. Then I assume they cut horizontal strips of 11 cards, since I see those sometimes. But at what point did they trim the excess from the sides and top? Some cards--the 1960 Fleer Jim Woodard comes to mind--are practically always off-center. Do you know why? (The Woodard is the bottom left card on 1960 Fleer sheets.)

That'll teach you for showing me something new. Now I'm compelled to interrogate you!

AFLfan

Hey nearmint... I took a look at your list of 1960 Fleer wrongbacks. I can add one to your list. I have a Sid Gillman front/Jim Woodard back.

jmoran19

I have no idea what the process was for cutting down the half (132) card sheets but I guessing that if they didn't feed the big half sheet into the cutter properly the corner cards would suffer first as they would have a better chance of feeding the smaller 11 card strips into the cutting machine properly.

nearmint

Thanks, guys. Some day I need to learn more about the printing and cutting process. I'd like to know what proofs are about, what happened to cause the wrongbacks that AFLfan mentioned, how miscuts occur, etc.

Pinkcatfish

Considering how bad the 68 FB cards were centered hard to tell what the methodology was. I would love to see where the notoriously O/C Maxie Baughn would have been on the uncut sheets - maybe an outside corner ??

Interesting stuff though,

J

nearmint

Hi John, Baughn is in the top right corner of the second series sheet, and also fourth up from the bottom on the right edge.

Just follow this link.

Pinkcatfish

Thanks Mike - very cool.

Jack