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I believe this was from a Topps Vault auction, as was the detail below:
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The GIF was always hard to read but I finally deciphered the uncut sheet and found out something surprising; my assumption that three of the missing proofs were the short printed Diering, Lopez and Stobbs pins was wrong. All three of those actually reside in the bottom row. I created a schematic of the sheet to make things easier. Leftmost five columns first, then rightmost five.
Leftmost:
KALINE | WEHMEIER | AARON | BOYER | RIVERA |
GOMEZ | POWER | SAUER | LONG | KENNEDY |
BOONE | FINIGAN | SULLIVAN | PAULA | BANKS |
MOSSI | (MISSING) | A. SMITH | O'BRIEN | HATTON |
(MISSING) | (MISSING) | (MISSING) | DONOVAN | HADDIX |
MOON | STOBBS | TURLEY | HEGAN | MIRANDA |
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Rightmost:
COLLINS | HOUSE | FOWLER | TRIANDOS | SIEVERS |
ROSEN | AMOROS | CONLEY | GROAT | MATHEWS |
ROBINSON | SPAHN | HARSHMAN | TREMEL | BLACK |
SPOONER | ZERNIAL | JENSEN | BERRA | M. SMITH |
SNIDER | H. SMITH | McMILLAN | ARROYO | HODGES |
LOPEZ | MAYS | RIZZUTO | NEGRAY | DIERING |
The four missing pins are: Hofman, Kluszewski, Skowron and Williams.
Here is a closeup of a proofed Zernial from a different sheet:
Here is the only thing on this page that is mine, from my subset of Dodgers, which shows how they look as issued:
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Such a great set-too bad only 60 of the 90 planned pins were issued. The pack graphics feature Ted Williams; sadly I had a great scan of a pack that was lost when my hard drive crashed last year. I'll post it here if I find it again.
1 comment:
For Cardinals fans - I had to learn the hard way that the Hal Smith in this set is not the Cardinals Hal Smith, but the Orioles Hal Smith. I spend several dollars on the Hal Smith and didn't know it until I got it in the mail. Should've looked closer.
Shane
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