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Another ? for the card folks about boarder colors

Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
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While looking through the Topps packs from the Topps online store we bought with my son last night, I noticed that the boarder colors were different (green, blue, white silver, and gold) pardone my ignorance but why? any significance or just cause Topps felt like it---Tom
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  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    From which Topps set?
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    2007 just bought from the Topps online store last week.
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    TTT to se if I get an answer.image
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  • mosaicmosaic Posts: 700 ✭
    If it's anything like Bowman and Bowman Chrome, the colors are variations that are limited to a certain print run.

    Topps loves to do that, and today's collectors seem to love it too. They also mix-in Refractors, X-Fractors, and all that mess.

    Too much variation for me!
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  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    Based on the colors you described, it sounds like you bought "Topps Total", not regular "Topps" cards.

    They are just parallels of the base set. Each card in the "Topps Total" base set, also has a parallel in each of the following color borders:

    Black (#d/50)
    Blue
    Gold
    Red
    Silver

    There is also a parallel that has the "1st Edition" logo on the front.




    Regular "Topps" also has parallel sets, but I have only seen Copper, Gold, and Platinum as parallels of regular "Topps"
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  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780
    Thanks my son just took up collecting Football cards and I know nothing about them so we'll learn together, again thanks for the info---Tom

    Edit to add: yes they were Topps total.
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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    they try to make it as confusing as possible any more it seems lol, every moder set is like that with refators, diff colors to make diff set of the same color,it hard enuff to make a basic set of stuff anymore !!
    randy
  • Boothill40Boothill40 Posts: 780


    << <i>they try to make it as confusing as possible any more it seems lol, every moder set is like that with refators, diff colors to make diff set of the same color,it hard enuff to make a basic set of stuff anymore !!
    randy >>



    Your telling me, the wife brought two boxes home tonight and they say "Topps Heritage 2006" so I take it this is a different set, oh well my son is having fun and that's all that matters.
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