In the middle of 2023, @TJisonline shared an incredible item with me: a letter from Sy Berger, the mastermind behind Topps Trading cards, to Fred…
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I found this 1938 dealer advertising sheet for the Canadian counterpart of the U.S. Gum, Incorporated 1938 Horrors of War set in Mastro’s 2004 auction…
Bobby Bonilla was a spokesman for Ultra PRO in early 1992. Do you think they’re still paying him today, like the Mets? If you weren’t…
Today, we present a 1949 Pixie Bubble Gum X-Ray Round-Up Advertising Poster from Topps’ early days. I scanned this image from Mastro’s June 2006 Classic…
Here’s an awesome summary of the Hockey Sheets that Upper Deck distributed at games during the 1991/92 NHL season, as presented in Allan Kaye’s Sports…