I noticed a few months back that most of the images from the 1973-74 OPC hockey set showed up in my profile as 'Card in my collection without an image.' Didn't think much of it at the time, since I was crazy busy at work and just assumed the images were being replaced with better scans or cards in better condition. Had a chance to look this week at the set again and noticed a change to how the set is being shown altogether.
From the release notes on the set: "Two different paper stocks were used during printing which resulted in cards with light (tan) and dark (grey) backs. The "dark" backs are more common for series 1 cards (1-132) and are listed here as the base. The "light" backs are more common for series 2 cards (133-264) and listed as a parallel set."
Personally, I would not have considered the cards with different card stocks as separate sets (nor did I since I have them intermixed in my PC). With the change to the website, all of my cards, collection and for trade, are all listed as the parallel (light) backs.
My post here is for three reasons:
- For those that collect vintage hockey, to be aware of the change to the website. I was not aware of the change and had not seen any posts identifying the change.
- To understand the rationale behind the change. Not sure if the change was driven by the Admin or from the community at large?
- To understand how to register my cards for this set on the site. I will go through my cards are record them correctly based on the card stock, but I am struggling to figure out how I complete the set. To me, the release notes imply that the main set should be Series 1 (dark) + Series 2 (light) while the insert set should be Series 1 (light) and Series 2 (dark)?
Thanks for the input in advance I'm sure I am overthinking this one too.
-- Mike @ VVcards --
Looking to complete OPC and Upper Deck master sets for hockey including Young Guns and update sets.