New Cards for Sale: Ungraded 1963 Topps
December 18th, 2008 | Published in Football Card Trivia, New Cards for Sale | 1 Comment
I added a big stack of ungraded 1963 Topps football cards to my sales site today, including most of the short prints. This is an interesting and challenging set to collect: the colored borders readily show wear, many of the cards are short-printed, and some of the short-printed cards are practically always off-center. Assembling the set in high grade is tough!
The set includes the rookie cards of several hall-of-famers: Bob Lilly, Ray Nitschke, Larry Wilson, Willie Wood, and Deacon Jones. You can see the entire array of 1963 Topps rookie cards in my vintage football card gallery.
The set also contains a variation that the price guides and grading services don’t recognize. Some of the player cards have a purple background, and some have a blue background. An example of each is shown below. A web site called At the Half has a nice article about the variation.
November 9th, 2010 at 8:19 AM (#)
[...] One last thing worth mentioning is that the backgrounds of many 1963 Topps cards vary in color: you can find them with either a blue sky or a purple one. There used to be a good article on geocities about the variations, but the article is no longer there. Someday maybe I’ll write about the variations myself. Until then, you can see the purple and blue variations of Willie Wood’s rookie card in one of my previous blog articles. [...]