Virtual Partial Uncut Sheets

I have not yet seen full sheets of cards from some football card sets, but by looking at partial sheets, panels, and miscut cards, I can begin to piece together the sheets. If you find an uncut panel or a card that is miscut so badly that you can see part of the next card, please send me a scan of it.

1955 Topps All-American

I found a picture of a partial sheet of 1955 Topps All-Americans in an old auction listing. Here is the virtual partial sheet. There are 100 cards in the 1955 Topps set, and half of them are on this sheet.

The following table shows how the cards on the partial sheet are numbered. I don't see a pattern to the numbering, so I can't guess what the rest of the sheet looked like. The green cells represent cards that Beckett says are short prints. Beckett says that there are 34 short prints in the set, and 33 of them happen to be on this partial sheet. I am skeptical as to whether they are really short prints, though, because short prints are usually in the same rows or columns of a sheet--rows or columns that are not repeated as many times as the rest.

1	27	86	12	65
25	61	51	11	56
54	95	29	9	66
10	22	17	57	16
55	26	13	15	42
68	21	14	20	96
30	50	77	34	87
36	18	88	35	94
99	28	83	97	93
100	98	84	19	38

1959 Topps 1st Series

I have assembled a 1959 Topps 2nd series virtual uncut sheet, but I have not yet seen a 1st series sheet to model. Here's a modest start: Bill Barnes with a bit of Leo Nomellini on the right, and the Colts pennant with a bit of Bob St. Clair on the left.

Here are the partial virtual uncut sheets:

And here is how they are numbered:

25

19

58

68

1967 Topps

I found a picture of a 1967 Topps proof sheet in an online auction; it contains 44 of the 132 cards in the set. I presume that the proof sheet represents a portion of the actual production sheet, but I do not know that for certain. Here is the virtual version of the proof sheet:

This is how the cards on it are numbered. I don't see a pattern to the numbering, so I can't guess the configuration of the rest of the sheet.

14	126	55	78	99	39	20	1	63	112	81
100	43	113	23	5	62	74	120	52	90	9
132	25	105	77	50	34	89	7	66	17	122
84	124	2	98	71	28	103	49	86	31	68

The four rows shown here, plus eight more rows, would have made up a 132-card half-sheet. Since there are 132 cards in the 1967 Topps set, the half-sheet would have contained exactly one set of cards. I believe that the other half of the 264-card full sheet would have been an exact duplicate.

A bit of trivia: the cards in the last row of the 1967 Topps proof sheet--the ones marked in green--were also included in Milton Bradley's 1969 Win-A-Card game. (See my blog article about the game.) There are 11 cards in the row, and there were a total of 33 1967 Topps football cards in the game, so it's a good bet that the other 22 cards resided in two more rows of the half-sheet.

Finally, here's another small clue as to what the half-sheet looked like: Steve Liskey, from the TheCowboysGuide.com, sent me this picture of a miscut Steve Tensi card. The sliver on the right is part of Jack Kemp's 1967 Topps card. Neither of these cards appear in the partial sheet above, so they must be part of one of the other eight rows on the half-sheet.

Here are the two cards together:

And this is how the two cards are numbered:

119

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1965, 1966, and 1967 Philadelphia Second Half-Sheet

As I wrote on my 1965 and 1967 Philadelphia uncut sheet pages, it appears that uncut sheets of 1965, 1966, and 1967 Philadelphia football cards all had the same numbering scheme. Thus, because I have seen a picture of a real half-sheet of 1966 Philadelphia cards, I was able to assemble a virtual half-sheet for each of the three years. It follows that if I saw a picture of the other half-sheet for any of the three years, I could also assemble the missing half-sheets for the other two years.

Unfortunately, I have not seen another half-sheet from any of the three years, so I have been collecting partial sheets and badly miscut cards in an attempt to piece the missing half-sheets together. Following is what I have so far.

First, I found a picture of a partial 1966 Philadelphia sheet on an old auction page. Two of the three rows also appear on the first half-sheet of 1966 Philadelphia cards, so I could complete those two rows. Here is a virtual version of the partial sheet, with the two known rows completed:

Next, here are three badly miscut 1965 Philadelphia cards. The 1965 Philadelphia St. Louis Cardinals team card has a sliver of a Brady Keys card on the left. The Cardinals card is number 155; the Keys is number 148. The Paul Krause rookie card has a bit of Matt Hazeltine's card showing on the left. Hazeltine is card number 175; Krause is number 189. Finally, the card to the right of John Brodie appears to be Buddy Dial. The Brodie is card number 171; the Dial is number 46.

Here are the corresponding bits of virtual uncut sheet:

Next is a miscut 1966 Philadelphia card: a Falcons Insignia card that shows a sliver of Don Perkins's card on the right. The Falcons card is number 1; the Perkins card is number 62.

Here is the corresponding bit of uncut sheet:

Finally, here are several badly miscut 1967 Philadelphia cards. Henry Carr, card number 110, is showing a sliver of John Wooten, card number 47, on the right. Ernie Green, card number 41, is showing a sliver of Ben McGee, card number 154, on the left. The Packers team card, card number 73, is showing a sliver of Tom Matte, card number 21, on the left. Amos Marsh, card number 68, is showing a strip of white on the left edge, indicating that it was on the left edge of the sheet. Roger Brown, number 62, is showing a bit of the Cleveland Browns team card, number 37, along the bottom. The Roger Brown card is interesting, because the Browns team card below it also appears on the first half-sheet. I am nearly certain that the entire row that holds the Browns team card was repeated on the second half-sheet; that places the Roger Brown card in the second column on the second half-sheet.

Here are the pieces of the uncut sheet, and we'll also remember that card number 68 is along the left edge.

Here is the numbering of all of the partial sheets above--with a couple combined because the numbers matched. Because the numbering on 1965, 1966, and 1967 sheets is the same, I can build the missing half-sheets by matching the numbers of cards from any of the three sets. As I collect more miscut cards, more pieces will fit together.

30	4	45	32	5	193	33	6	48	34	186
76	86	101	78	88	102	80	90	103	116	69
					156	141	178	157	142	180

148

155

175

189

171

46

1	62
49	37	60	51	38	65	52	74	66	54	9

110

47

154

41

21

73

For general information on uncut sheets of vintage football cards, see my blog article, U is for Uncut Sheets. Also see my other virtual uncut sheets, listed in the left column of this page.

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