A Virtual 1959 Topps Uncut Sheet
May 25th, 2009 | Published in Football Card Trivia, New in the Gallery | 2 Comments
One of last week’s posts was about a virtual uncut sheet of 1960 Fleer football cards that I created for the Vintage Football Card Gallery. I got some nice feedback on that, so today I created another, this time a virtual 1959 Topps uncut sheet. This one was a little less challenging, since I had a picture of a real sheet to look at, but I still learned a few things. For one, you only have to look at a couple of these to see that a card’s position on the sheet greatly affects its availability in high grade. It’s remarkable that the price guides don’t recognize this. They must know what the sheets looked like, since they know which cards are short prints, but to my knowledge none of the guides consider sheet position when assigning prices.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:10 AM (#)
This is a really cool concept and I would love to see more of them. In regards to the price guide issue, I have a feeling they fail to take a LOT of things into consideration.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:44 PM (#)
Thanks, Dave, I’ll create more virtual sheets as I get time.
Another thing the price guides don’t take into consideration are the players’ teams. I find that Packers, Raiders, and Cowboys commons sell more readily than players from other teams, I guess because of their strong national following. On the other hand, vintage cards of Houston Oilers and St. Louis Cardinals don’t sell very well, perhaps because those teams have moved since the cards were printed.