1956 Topps # 46 Gene Freese [WB] (Pirates)

Topps 1968 "Baseball Action Stickers" consisted of (16) 3-part sticker panel strips containing removable, die-cut stickers. They were PACKED !!! Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Seaver, Yastrzemski ... There are (16) different three-panel stickers in the set but only 12 contain totally different panels. Stickers #13 thru #16 re-used panels from the first 12 strips.

Each (15 3/4" by 3 1/4") strip had (3) 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inch panels, perforated at the joints for separation. Each strip featured a large image of a star player in the center, with smaller pictures of three players on top & bottom panels. The large sticker and some of the others had facsimile autographs The peel-able back was blank-backed. The strip was folded along 2 perforations and placed in it's pack.

Sold in 1-sticker packs in 1968 with 12 packs/box; at ten cents a pack, sets could be put together for just $1.60. Today, if you could find them, a mid four figures or more would be needed to build a set. Today a complete 3-panel sticker with Mantle in the center commands up to $2,000 alone.

Complete strips with the 3-panels still attached are so scarce and fragile AND EXPENSIVE that collectors usually collect individual panels and the grading companies including PSA grade the individual panels. The single panels themselves are quite scarce and in the 23 years PSA has been around they have graded just over 200 TOTAL, less than 9 per year !!! The pop report is on the average of only 4 to 5 of each individual panel !!! Compare that to PSA has graded over a thousand 1952 Topps Mickey Mantles !!! Vintage Topps collectors understand supply and demand and just how cool these are !

Proof sheets, usually from Topps Vault, have shown up. This sheet is missing the facsimile autographs.

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