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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Alternate Reality

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Well kids, thirty years later a partial solution to the second  1967 baseball high number sheet has been revealed. A Current Friend o't...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

All Business

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On the rare occasions that I decide to plumb the depths of my hard drive looking for stray scans that have been misfiled, possibly due to va...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Vend For Yourself

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One of the early sales and marketing strategies employed by Topps centered on vending machines, or "automatic merchandising" as re...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wonder Wheel

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Well pardners, a couple of Google searches with slightly altered search terms has resulted in a really neat shot coming your way in living c...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Great '08

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Further to my previous post on the murky origins of the American Leaf Tobacco Company , one of the predecessor companies to Topps owned by t...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Window Treatment

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The advertising materials used by Topps in the early days of card and novelty production were quite varied.  Television was not yet entrench...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Animalistic

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Topps was in the midst of a fabulous run of sensationalized subject matter on their cards in 1950-51: after Hopalong Cassidy had been intro...
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