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1968 Topps 3-D Test - The Brooklyn Summer When Cards Popped Off the Paper

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1968 Topps 3-D Test - The Brooklyn Summer When Cards Popped Off the Paper Picture New York in the late 60s. Corner drugstores, spinning postcard racks, and a plain white pack for a nickel that promised something strange called “3-D.” Kids cracked them, tilted them under the fluorescent lights, and watched Roberto Clemente and friends jump forward like they were stepping out of the cardboard. Then the cards curled, cracked, disappeared into shoeboxes, and a myth was born. What this test issue actually was The 1968 Topps 3-D set was a tiny test run with 12 unnumbered cards , produced on lenticular plastic by a New York printer called Visual Panographics. Cards are slightly narrow (about 2¼ x 3½ inches), have rounded corners and blank backs, and are widely believed to have been distributed around the New York City area. Stars include Roberto Clemente and Tony Pérez . “Two to a pack, five cents” and a tiny easel Hobby lore points to two-card, five-cent packs, and som...
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DID YOU KNOW #3 - 1952 series Topps cards burried in Atlantic Ocean

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The Mysterious Disposal of 1952 Topps Baseball Cards In a surprising turn of events during the 1960s, a massive number of unsold cards from the 1952 Topps series were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. Yep — you read that right! 1952 Topps Sealed Box So who gave the order? That would be Sy Berger — the man often referred to as the father of modern baseball cards. Sy Berger, the mastermind behind the set Berger joined Topps in 1947 and, along with Woody Gelman, helped create the 1952 set. Despite its now-legendary status, the cards didn’t sell well at first. In fact, they were such a surplus that Berger made the now-infamous decision in 1960: dump over two million unsold cards into the ocean. One of those cards? A now-priceless copy of Mickey Mantle’s legendary 1952 Topps card — regarded by many as the true Holy Grail of post-war baseball cards. Topps 1952 Baseball Cards — now legendary These days, that same Mickey ...
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