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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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