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03-05-2013, 02:34 PM #1
77-78 topps question
I just bought (ebay) a 1977-78 Kareem Abdul Jabbar #1 to finish off a set I want to sell. I noticed that the stock it is printed on is different than all of the other cards I already have (which I have had since 1977). It has a gray back, but all of the others have a bright white back. Anyone expierienced this in the past? I didn't pay alot for it, but I just can't put it in the set with the rest.
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03-05-2013, 05:36 PM #2
Update... seller thinks it might be Canadian version, but card says on back prtd in USA. In my experience, OPC has always used brighter stock than US versions. I have no idea whats going on with this card. Just bot another one.
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03-05-2013, 09:16 PM #3
You mean like this?
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03-05-2013, 09:43 PM #4
I have some of those, too. I always assumed the gray ones were just more worn and more faded.
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03-05-2013, 10:13 PM #5
I'm not positive since it is vintage basketball but they changed or had a different place printing the cards. So the card stock was different resulting in different colored backs. Sometimes there is a premium on the "white", sometimes there is a premium on the "gray", and sometimes they are printed in the same quantities.
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03-06-2013, 12:03 PM #6
You mean like this?
Yep, thats exactly whats going on. any explanation?
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03-06-2013, 12:06 PM #7
My thot was a later print run. All of the cars I have I got as a child in 77 have white backs. Just dug them out and realized I only needed 17 to finish a second set.
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03-06-2013, 03:10 PM #8
The whole set exists in both white and gray stock. Beckett says the white stock versions are rarer, but I found that's not true. It was way, way, WAY easier for me to complete the white stock set than the gray stock set.
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