Joe Coleman - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge UN-DECKLED NO # PROOF [GB] (Tigers)

RARE 3 x 5-3/8 inch UNDECKLED PROOF of a RARE Topps Test Issue !!!

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Joe Coleman - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge UN-DECKLED NO # PROOF [GB] (Tigers) cards value

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1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
Baseball Cards Set checklist/info
Another one of my favorite Topps test issues !!! In 1968, trying to catch the fancy of young collectors, Topps issued a set of "Baseball Action Stickers", also called "Action All-Stars Stickers". 1968 was a huge year for Topps with their test/oddball issues of Game cards, Player Posters, 3-D cards, Plaks, Discs and Punchouts.

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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Another interesting issue
1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Baseball Stickers

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1981 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values

For the first time in many years, Topps had to share the baseball card market with others. Donruss and Fleer entered the market with their own 1981 sets. When collector's heard they were thrilled. When they saw the Donruss and Fleer cards they were many sighs of disappointment.
1981 will always be remembered for "FERNANDO MANIA" !!!
Fernando did not make the Hall-of-Fame and he even had to share his rookie card with another player, but he had more impact during the 1981 season then anyone.
Other rookies included Hall-of-Famers Tim Raines and Harold Baines. Kirk Gibson's rookie is also here. Not a Hall-of-Famer, but who can forget his home run off the then unhittable Dennis Eckersley ?

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Baseball card collecting terms (part D-F)

Die-Cut A special card that differs from a basic card by "Die-Cutting", cutting away portions of the card to create a special design. Most are serially numbered & limited.

Error Card Baseball card history is filled with error cards, many of them very interesting. Hank Aaron is on 2 of my favorite error cards. Aaron's 1956 Topps card action photo shows Aaron sliding home but it is actually Willie Mays not Aaron. Topps again goofed on Aaron's 1957 "reversed negative" card showing Aaron batting left-handed.

"Error Cards" are usually found early in print runs and often corrected. When this correction happens a VARIATION is created. Some variations are extremely interesting and very expensive while others are totally boring and you wonder why they were even made.

Extended Set Also frequently called Update Set or Traded Set.
They are sets issued after the original release to update the regular set with new and traded players.

Facsimile Autograph is an autograph printed on a card to show what the player's actual signature looks like. They are not "real" autographs.

Factory Set are complete sets usually in special boxes produced by the manufacturer. "Hand-Collated Sets" are sets collectors have put together card by card from packs.

Joe Coleman - 1974 Topps Deckle Edge UN-DECKLED NO # PROOF [GB] (Tigers)

1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers Baseball Cards Set checklist/info

1981 Topps Baseball Cards Checklist & Values

1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
Baseball Cards Set checklist/info

1981 Topps Baseball Cards
Checklist & Values