Wacky Packages

1979 Test Series

Before the 1979 Reissue Series was released, Topps experimented with a test set.  These were based on a modified 1st / 2nd series sheet which was offered as a wall poster (below) in 1973.

The 1979 test stickers all have blank white-backs and carry the old 1973 copyrights.  The only way to tell them apart from the original series, is by the shape of the die-cut lines in the black border.

Original 1st and 2nd series stickers have a faint blue line within the black border.  The blue seems absent in the '79 set, but it's not yet been proven that this outline appears 100% of the time in the older series.

Also, the eight 1979 titles taken from the 2nd series all have one asterisk (*) in the copyright.  Original 2nd series stickers can have either one or two asterisks.