Need Info: 1986 Topps football

baz518

Any 1986 Topps football experts/aficionados out there? Please reply or PM if you have any information regarding the double prints and their different variations. Thanks.

rcmb3220

Not an expert but there should be no double prints in that set

1all

396 cards in the set means exactly three 132 card sheets so no double prints.

baz518

I guess not double prints in the truest form, but all cards from Sheet C (Jerry Rice included) can be found with a C or D sheet designation. So there were actually 4 sheets printed. My thinking was that-- since Topps actually produced full 264 card sheets, and then cut them in half to get the traditional 132-card sheets we see-- they simply double printed one of the sheets so they wouldn't have empty space on one of the FULL sheets. So A & B were on one full sheet, and C & D on another full sheet... only difference is C & D had the exact same cards. But I'm pretty sure I've seen some cards that actually denote "C & D" on the back of the card. So I'm not sure if there's a third variation of these same 132 cards that already had the C/D variation. If so, my guess would be that Topps eventually switched to printing 'C & D' on both sides of that full sheet, rather than one with 'C' and one with 'D'.



Really just curious because I would like to collect all variations of the set... basically my own raw, master set.





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