One of the hobby backroads less traveled that's ripe for further investigation leads to buttons and pins, especially those produced in t...

Topps hit a creative peak after the move of their production, packaging and warehousing facilities to Duryea, PA in 1966.  I don't know ...

I've recently been able to close a loop concerning the sale of Bowman Gum to Topps in early 1956. When I was researching the Modern Hobb...

One of the lines I straddle as a type collector of Topps cards and certain ephemera is the one dividing third party premiums from first part...

1973 saw a double test by Topps of a set featuring The Waltons , a burgeoning show on CBS that featured the namesake family dealing with lif...

So we are, amazingly, coming up on eight years of this blog and as I was rolling around in the "posts" section, which I do occasio...

Dating anomalies fascinate me.  No, not like Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts when they were courting, but when dates of issue on a set are see...