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Topps Heritage/Archives don't look like Originals....lame.

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Jgamble

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Joined: Oct 2017

Monday, August 26, 2019 4:49 PM

Maybe I'm a stickler for details, but it bugs me to no end that Topps didn't appear to bother to match typefaces, logo sizes and positioning, etc to match up newer versions of older designs. Anyone know why they couldn't/didn't? As a graphic designer, I can recreate most of these cards down to the minutae in no time. Seems weird that Topps wouldn't go to that trouble. For example, font style and logo versioning on the 87s, fonts on the 93s, no full names on the 75s.

Ah well, back to counterfeiting an '06 Alex Gordon so my binder doesn't have a blank space...

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vrooomed

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Monday, August 26, 2019 9:10 PM
Might be so that they DON'T look exactly like the originals. ------------------------------- -- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 3/4/2024). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned on (details are in my profile).

Billy Kingsley

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:22 AM

Dan is exactly right. They do this so people can't claim them as originals. Every reissue, in every hobby, has something slightly different to prove it's not an original.

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Jgamble

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:36 AM
I see that to a point, but it looks cheap and even more like a knockoff to me and breaks my nostalgia. Like we know Albert Pujols didn’t play in 1986, but the 87 Topps stuff that came out a couple years ago has the updated logo and that’s weird to me. Maybe I’m being too much of a stickler. ------------------------------- Cards come from a smoke/pet/Subway-bread/patchouli free home.

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