A printing plate from 1962 Topps. Did you know these were out in the wild, I didn't? If it had come from Topps Vault that would be understandable but this didn't. (though it was really big seller on eBay) I had thought that all the printing plates went to Venezuela so that they could do the Venezuelan cards. Maybe the reason the 1962 Venezuelan set didn't include Virdon amongst others is the printing plates never left that states. I probably way overpaid for this since I'm the only Virdon collector that I know of but I couldn't take the chance it got away and did the BIN the day it got posted. I mean it's a 57 year old item that shouldn't exist but does.
I now know how it feels to get a printing plate for my Player Collection just like those modern collectors, only different.
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Very cool pieces Adam, enjoying seeing the Virdon collection. You have some unique pieces. I’ve thought the same thing about modern PC guys. I’m glad mine are all retired. I only chase playing day cards
Wow. A printing plate from the 60's? Don't see those very often. Heck... I don't think I've ever seen one of those.
Pretty cool! If I remember correctly, Bob (Five Tool Collector) had a printing plate from this set in one of his posts not too long ago as well. It is kind of amazing to think that any of these did survive the ravages of time.
Kudos to Topps for keeping a lot of cool stuff in their vault all these years. It'd be cool if they started offering 50's, 60's, and 70's printing plates as hits in a future product.
Hmmm... Topps Vault 50s... I might know my next post...
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