1959 Topps Logo Swap
July 28th, 2009 | Published in error cards
A couple of weeks ago I added a search for error cards to the Vintage Football Card Gallery, and since then I have been documenting the error cards in my database. Here are a couple more I never noticed: the 1959 Topps Jim Ray Smith and Dave Middleton cards have the wrong team logos on the front. In fact, the logos appear to be switched! I thought that if I looked at the cards’ placement on an uncut sheet, I might see how their logos could have been swapped, but the two cards are not close together on the sheet. Perhaps it is just coincidence that Smith got Middleton’s Lion and Middleton got Smith’s Brown.
The 1959 Topps set has a large number of errors besides these swapped logos: misspelled names, incorrect player positions, a card picturing the wrong player, typos in the stats, and so on. I’m not sure how far to go with documenting the errors. Does anyone care if Bill Glass is a center on the front of the card and a tackle on the back?
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