1970s O-Pee-Chee

In the 1970s, O-Pee-Chee produced a licensed version of the American Topps sets throughout the decade.

The Canadian printed O-Pee-Chee cards tended to be printed on lighter grey cardstock and often included traded lines on the front of the cards. In 1970, due to Canadian law, the cards were modified to include both French and English text in which case T.C.G was replaced by O.P.C. in the copyright line. The first four series of the 1971 set(1-523) featured French and English card backs, while the 5th and 6th series reverted to the English-only back of their Topps counterpart. The 1971 set also had several cards unique to the Canadian issue, including cards with trade lines on the front, and extra Expo player cards that resulted in the O Pee Chee set substituting Ron Hunt for Topps' #161 Coin Checklist,Claude Raymond for Topps' #202 Reds Celebrate, and Rusty Staub for Topps' White Sox Team Card. In 1977 different photos were used on some of the cards. Other variations include yellow backs in 1971 and 1974 rather than green used by Topps. From 1973 until 1975, the amount of cards in both the Topps and O-Pee-Chee sets were identical in size.

Baseball

Football

Standard size is 2½ × 3½ in.

• 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL 115 cards standard size similar to 1969 Topps NFL
• 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL Push-Out Inserts 16 cards standard size
• 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL 132 cards standard size
• 1971 O-Pee-Chee CFL Poster Inserts 16 cards Size:5X7
• 1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL 132 cards standard size
• 1972 O-Pee-Chee CFL Trio Sticker Inserts 24 cards

Hockey

References

• Beckett, Dr. James et al. (2002). "Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide". Beckett Publications-Dallas, Texas ISBN 1-930692-17-X