Uncut Sheets of 1959 Toppso Football Cards

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Uncut Sheets of 1959 Topps Football Cards

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Second Series

An uncut 132-card sheet of second series 1959 Topps football cards (cards with numbers ranging from 89 to 176) appeared in a 2009 Huggins & Scott auction. Below is a virtual version of the uncut sheet. If you hold your cursor above a card, your browser should show you the number of the card and the name of the player. Clicking on a card will bring up the full-sized scan.

This sheet was originally half of a 264-card full sheet configured like this 1966 Topps baseball card sheet. You can see on the baseball card sheet that the top eight rows (88 cards) on the left half of the sheet are repeated twice more on the full sheet. On the 132-card half-sheet below, the bottom four rows are the same as the top four rows. On the other 132-card half-sheet, the other four rows would have been repeated.

According to PSA's population report, the cards least often graded mint on this sheet are Bruce Bosley, Junior Wren, Dan Currie, Lindon Crow, Jim Schrader, Yale Lary, Rick Casares, Bill Wade, Jim Ray Smith, Chuck Weber, Gern Nagler, Art Hunter, and Zeke Bratkowski. At the time of this writing, there were 6 or fewer of each of these cards graded PSA 9 or 10. Wade, Smith, and Schrader are on the corners of the sheet, and except for Nagler and Hunter, the remaining cards are on the edges. Nagler, Bratkowski, and Wren all appear in row 5, which would have be the top row on the matching sheet.

The Tom Tracy card, a common that the price guides value higher because it is the last card in the set, is actually more common in mint condition than nearly all of the cards on the sides of the sheet. Supposedly the last card of a set was susceptible to damage (rubber band marks, for example) from being on the bottom of kids' stacks of cards. In reality, though, it appears that a card's position on the sheet affects its scarcity more than its being the last card in the set.

The following table shows how the cards were arranged by number on the sheet. The cards in green are the scarcest in this series in high grade.

100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101
90	170	140	114	93	173	143	95	122	149	169
131	123	157	99	171	172	137	106	154	111	162
94	164	146	148	104	139	129	127	126	98	156
138	158	155	107	112	133	117	141	118	108	124
100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101

First Series

I have not seen a first series 1959 Topps uncut sheet, but I have been able to piece some of it together by looking at badly miscut cards. Here are the pieces I have so far:

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100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101
90	170	140	114	93	173	143	95	122	149	169
131	123	157	99	171	172	137	106	154	111	162
94	164	146	148	104	139	129	127	126	98	156
138	158	155	107	112	133	117	141	118	108	124
100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101

100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101
90	170	140	114	93	173	143	95	122	149	169
131	123	157	99	171	172	137	106	154	111	162
94	164	146	148	104	139	129	127	126	98	156
138	158	155	107	112	133	117	141	118	108	124
100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101

100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101
90	170	140	114	93	173	143	95	122	149	169
131	123	157	99	171	172	137	106	154	111	162
94	164	146	148	104	139	129	127	126	98	156
138	158	155	107	112	133	117	141	118	108	124
100	109	150	160	130	97	145	165	120	167	110
135	176	115	128	105	153	152	125	161	163	89
119	116	92	151	147	102	96	175	91	136	132
134	144	168	174	103	121	142	159	113	166	101