[ALR-bishop]

Up through 1994 I collected anything listed for Topps in the SCD Standard Catalog ( I think the last edition that listed post 1980 issues was 2011 20th Edition).

So I did get the 1952 Archives Reprint (1983), the 1953 Archives set ( 1991) and the 1954 Archives sets, regular and gold (1994). I think they stopped the full reprint sets then because of mediocre sales and the problem of getting reasonable authorizations to reprint from players or surviving family.

The 54 Reprint was 256 cards. It did not have the 2 Williams cards, but added "8 prospect" cards. At some cost I was able to add the two Williams cards put out by Upper Deck in the Topps format with Topps ok, and a Mantle card ( numbered 259) that Topps later put out modeled on it's 1954 "card" of Mantle that appeared in Sports Illustrated that year. I think Larry Fritsch ( or current reps) still sells those 3 cards out of his catalog. Those 3 cards were not made for the Gold set as far as I know. Aaron also autographed about 2000 of his 54 reprint card for Topps that served as pack premium inserts, and I was able to pick up one of those for my set.

Not aware of any SPs in those sets. I have not done any of the Archive issues since 1994