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Offline toddbarrett

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Series 16 Puzzle
« on: September 30, 2022, 09:32:14 AM »
Hello all, I've been working on putting together the puzzle from the 16th series. It was relatively easy to get the left side and the middle row, but the left side of the puzzle is proving harder to find, and more expensive when they do pop up. Does anyone know if this is a printing thing? Was the right and middle in more quantity on the press sheet? If so, is that the same for all of the other series? I never noticed a difference in the other series.

Todd B.
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Offline Paul_Maul

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2022, 09:49:13 AM »
In every series, the right side (for portrait orientation) or the bottom row (for landscape orientation) is slightly short printed (there are 16 copies of the other two rows, and only 12 for the short printed row per sheet). This is because all Topps sheets have exactly 11 columns.

Here is an example:


Offline faustxxx

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2022, 01:37:14 PM »
     That is great information. I would be curious if PSA understands and would ever establish the short prints as such.

     Matt.

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2022, 01:49:14 PM »
     That is great information. I would be curious if PSA understands and would ever establish the short prints as such.

     Matt.
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Offline Paul_Maul

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2022, 01:50:14 PM »
     That is great information. I would be curious if PSA understands and would ever establish the short prints as such.

     Matt.

They definitely don’t understand it, but I don’t think they would call out the short prints on the flip, since they generally don’t do that for short printed sports cards.

Offline NationalSpittoon

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2022, 04:22:46 PM »
Pinball

Offline toddbarrett

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2022, 08:01:08 PM »
In every series, the right side (for portrait orientation) or the bottom row (for landscape orientation) is slightly short printed (there are 16 copies of the other two rows, and only 12 for the short printed row per sheet). This is because all Topps sheets have exactly 11 columns.

Here is an example:

(Image removed from quote.)

Thanks for the image, that makes perfect sense. I guess I never saw the price difference in the other issues. Maybe it was there, but just slightly, and it is more magnified in the 16th series.

Todd

Offline lucidjc

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2022, 10:38:54 PM »

Offline Plastered Peanut

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2022, 11:14:16 PM »
  Maybe it was there, but just slightly, and it is more magnified in the 16th series.

Todd

Maybe, but I've been collecting OS for decades now, and it's always the right column (portrait) or bottom row (landscape) that you will be missing to complete puzzles.... for any OS series.
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Offline Plastered Peanut

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2022, 11:15:24 PM »
Right

In response to "Pinball"......I gotta ask.......what is the inside joke here?
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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2022, 09:51:58 AM »
In response to "Pinball"......I gotta ask.......what is the inside joke here?

They are just being “flippant”.   :P
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Offline NationalSpittoon

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2022, 11:10:04 AM »
In response to "Pinball"......I gotta ask.......what is the inside joke here?

Pinball is no joke!!!

Offline DrSushi

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2022, 02:24:56 PM »
They are just being “flippant”.   :P

I thought they were going full tilt.

Offline lucidjc

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2022, 08:15:13 PM »

Offline toddbarrett

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2022, 02:30:21 PM »
With help from for Mark S. (Pupsi-Cola) I was finally able to complete the 16th series puzzle. Mark was able to hunt down my missing pieces down at the Philly Non Sports Card show. Thanks Mark!!!

https://i.postimg.cc/L5QwTdrD/16th-Puzzle.jpg

Todd B.

Offline 70s_Kid

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2022, 08:21:37 PM »
With help from for Mark S. (Pupsi-Cola) I was finally able to complete the 16th series puzzle. Mark was able to hunt down my missing pieces down at the Philly Non Sports Card show. Thanks Mark!!!

https://i.postimg.cc/L5QwTdrD/16th-Puzzle.jpg

Todd B.

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Offline Pupsi-Cola

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Re: Series 16 Puzzle
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2022, 09:00:00 PM »
With help from for Mark S. (Pupsi-Cola) I was finally able to complete the 16th series puzzle. Mark was able to hunt down my missing pieces down at the Philly Non Sports Card show. Thanks Mark!!!

https://i.postimg.cc/L5QwTdrD/16th-Puzzle.jpg

Todd B.









Glad I Could help you out.