Topps Cloth Team Emblem Stickers - '73 or '74?

ICE9

Are these rare? I just picked up a test wax pack for $38.

I didn't find many completed transactions...two single raw cards sold for approx $20 each.

Mike

bobsbbcards

That's a good price for the pack. I'm not sure how many cards are inside there, but I'm pretty sure you got your money's worth. Cards are pretty tough to find, but I don't think they sell for as much as one would expect because they don't show real players.

Here's a scan of a pack (beat to heck as all of them tend to be):

WinPitcher

Test issues


Nice P/U

1973 Action Emblems (48)

Baseball Coin Rub Game (1)

R-414-UNC

Not quite sure what's up here so let me try to explain this mess. Standard Catalog says 1974, I believe the year of issue to be 1973 for reasons stated in the Candy Lids essay. Each emblem has two parts, a larger upper area, with a team logo (not the real logo, ones made up by Topps!) with an drawn action shot of a ballplayer superimposed. The artwork is pretty basic and I can't tell if the players are actual stars or just representations. The smaller bottom portion has a city name, though not matching the logo above. There's also a game card a little like the 70/71 inserts, but with no player photos. My gut feeling is Topps put this set out to tweak the Owners. I mean, why else would they go and create 24 new team logos? Whatever it was though, it worked-briefly; in 1974 the logos were back on the supplemental issues, but after that they laid off the special sets for a while.

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Steve

ICE9

Thanks for the info. Nice link.

My pack appears to be in pretty good condition...







Thanks again,

Mike