<< <i>Thank you for confirming grote. Really sick that people would do this and rip people off. Needs to be a function available where people can contact Ebay about fraudulent items being sold on Ebay and pulled. >>
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
<< <i>Saw those 75 packs with the white headers on them. Never seen one before, and outside of the white(not red) header what else gives it away as a fake or is that it? >>
Topps never produced 24-card rack packs in 1975~these are fabrications from another seller on ebay who sold a bunch of them a while back. They are completely homemade. Topps never used a white header card for any year, either. >>
I certainly agree these white header card racks are fake. But I would suggest that that white header card is a black and white reproduction of a legitimate Topps test product that was never produced. If you think about it, it's quite a random item to just make up. Also, the product code is consistent with a revision of the regular '75 rack header. Doesn't this seem like a plausible theory? Someone got a hold of this mock up and tried to create racks and pass them off as legitimate test items.
<< <i>Saw those 75 packs with the white headers on them. Never seen one before, and outside of the white(not red) header what else gives it away as a fake or is that it? >>
Topps never produced 24-card rack packs in 1975~these are fabrications from another seller on ebay who sold a bunch of them a while back. They are completely homemade. Topps never used a white header card for any year, either. >>
I certainly agree these white header card racks are fake. But I would suggest that that white header card is a black and white reproduction of a legitimate Topps test product that was never produced. If you think about it, it's quite a random item to just make up. Also, the product code is consistent with a revision of the regular '75 rack header. Doesn't this seem like a plausible theory? Someone got a hold of this mock up and tried to create racks and pass them off as legitimate test items.
BTW, Tim, what's the code on the mini rack? >>
David, the 75 mini racks have same product code as regular 75 racks and were packaged with same packaging, too, which is why mini cards often swim their respective sections.
I disagree that this was any kind of actual test product, though. IMO, the fabricators simply used the regular 75 header card as a template and using a software program changed a numeral in the product code to make it appear like a test issue to create plausability like that raised in your post.
IMHO, the chances of such a header card actually being produced by Topps at any point in time during the 1975 season for a 24-card rack pack for 29c is nil.
Bear in mind, too, that all of these emanated from a single source within the past year, and not a reliable one~if this were an actual test issue, we almost certainly would have also seen some evidence of such prior to 2014.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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<< <i>Thank you for confirming grote. Really sick that people would do this and rip people off. Needs to be a function available where people can contact Ebay about fraudulent items being sold on Ebay and pulled. >>
They do have that.
<< <i>Yeah...where is the Yount?? >>
Sequence was one card short.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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<< <i>Saw those 75 packs with the white headers on them. Never seen one before, and outside of the white(not red) header what else gives it away as a fake or is that it? >>
Topps never produced 24-card rack packs in 1975~these are fabrications from another seller on ebay who sold a bunch of them a while back. They are completely homemade. Topps never used a white header card for any year, either. >>
I certainly agree these white header card racks are fake. But I would suggest that that white header card is a black and white reproduction of a legitimate Topps test product that was never produced. If you think about it, it's quite a random item to just make up. Also, the product code is consistent with a revision of the regular '75 rack header. Doesn't this seem like a plausible theory? Someone got a hold of this mock up and tried to create racks and pass them off as legitimate test items.
BTW, Tim, what's the code on the mini rack?
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<< <i>Saw those 75 packs with the white headers on them. Never seen one before, and outside of the white(not red) header what else gives it away as a fake or is that it? >>
Topps never produced 24-card rack packs in 1975~these are fabrications from another seller on ebay who sold a bunch of them a while back. They are completely homemade. Topps never used a white header card for any year, either. >>
I certainly agree these white header card racks are fake. But I would suggest that that white header card is a black and white reproduction of a legitimate Topps test product that was never produced. If you think about it, it's quite a random item to just make up. Also, the product code is consistent with a revision of the regular '75 rack header. Doesn't this seem like a plausible theory? Someone got a hold of this mock up and tried to create racks and pass them off as legitimate test items.
BTW, Tim, what's the code on the mini rack? >>
David, the 75 mini racks have same product code as regular 75 racks and were packaged with same packaging, too, which is why mini cards often swim their respective sections.
I disagree that this was any kind of actual test product, though. IMO, the fabricators simply used the regular 75 header card as a template and using a software program changed a numeral in the product code to make it appear like a test issue to create plausability like that raised in your post.
IMHO, the chances of such a header card actually being produced by Topps at any point in time during the 1975 season for a 24-card rack pack for 29c is nil.
Bear in mind, too, that all of these emanated from a single source within the past year, and not a reliable one~if this were an actual test issue, we almost certainly would have also seen some evidence of such prior to 2014.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.