There's the Deckle Edge..
And then there are these:
The Heritage checklist calls them Collector Cards. But I don't know of any collectors who use that name to refer to the originals. The originals are Transogram cards. They were put out by the Transogram company and were found on the box of a player figure.
I never knew that Topps made the Transogram cards, though it has been pointed out that the name font is almost identical to that on the 1968 cards.
The Transogram company were belly-up in the early 1970s, so I'd assume there's no legal reason for Topps to not call them "Transogram." I'm not a lawyer, so maybe I'm wrong.
But it seems wrong to me for the yellow cards to be called anything other than "Transogram."
Seems more wrong to call those deckle edge things "cards". That is seriously Topps homage to the original? What is with that shop job on the images? Simple black and white filter, Topps.
ReplyDeleteTopps is really out of touch with not only their own history but baseball card history.
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