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

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. I have seen a picture of a real half-sheet of 1966 Philadelphia cards, so I was able to assemble a virtual half-sheet for each of the three sets. It follows that if I saw a picture of the other half-sheet for any of the three sets, I could also assemble the missing half-sheets for the other two.

Unfortunately, I have not seen the other half-sheet from any of the three sets, 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 have an 8-card panel of 1966 Philadelphia cards from the second half-sheet. Here is a virtual version of it:

Next, 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. Note that the rightmost four cards in the bottom row match the top row of the 8-card panel above, so we can combine these panels below.

Next, here are two 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.

Here are the corresponding bits of uncut sheet:

Next are two miscut 1966 Philadelphia cards:

• A Falcons logo card that shows a sliver of Don Perkins's card on the right.
• A Dick LeBeau card with a sliver of Frank Lasky's card on the left.

Here are the corresponding bits 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.
• The Saints team card, number 121, is showing a bit of Sonny Jurgensen, card number 185, on the left.
• The Bears insignia card, number 36, is showing a bit of the Cardinals insignia card, number 186, 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
							171	46	133	84

148

155

175

189

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

8

70

110

47

154

41

21

73

185

121

168

36

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.