Card of the Day - 2023-10-19

Topps 75th Anniversary
Topps [commercial ; cards ; O/S : USA] "75th Anniversary" (2013) 90/100

Now this may have made some of you think that we had gone back to the start, but this is an official reproduction of card 26 from the original "Back to the Future" set, with a new back, describing the set not the picture, 

And despite the number on the front, this is numbered again on the back as card number 90. 

The 75th Anniversary set is a base set of a hundred cards, showing one card from selected Topps sets on the fronts and talking about them on the reverse. It starts with their first ever set, the 1948 "Magic Photos", and because those cards are small, they manage to get ten of the cards on to the front. However they did rather miss a trick because there are baseball players in that set and none are featured on this front. And it ends with "The X Files", which uses the front from card 2 of the Season One set, issued in 1995.

Now there are also special cards available. These include autographs in several sorts, buybacks, mini cards, and four colours of printing plate cards plus a variety of finishes, foil, diamond sparkle, gloss. There are also test cards. All are explained via the link.

However it is a huge undertaking to get them all, and I truly wonder if anyone does, or whether in such a set as this they just collect the card of their favourite and let the rest pass by?