1953 Topps

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Posted By: bobw

What do the following 4 cards have in common?

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Posted By: DD

Topps Gum sign in the background

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

The well-known 1953 Topps artist....Gerry Dvorak did the artwork for these cards.

TED Z

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Posted By: bobw

I remember seeing him set up at card shows.

Don't forget the players names in the backgrounds too

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Posted By: Paul S

Neat stuff. I always enjoy hearing this type of minutae that I tend to otherwise not hear or overlook. Now I want to go through my own and see what else.

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Posted By: Rich Klein

If you check out the Jackie Robinson card, the Brooklyn Bridge is in the background

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I met Gerry at a BB card show in Freehold, NJ in 1981. He was looking for certain 1953 Topps cards at my table.
Gerry picked out of my stock album an assortment of 53T cards, and I asked him....why those particular cards ?
He surprised me as he told me he was the artist who drew them back in 1952. From that moment on Gerry and I
developed a lifelong friendship. There was a great article on Gerry in VCBC (issue #31).

Shown here are some of the 1953 cards that Gerry was contracted out to do.

TED Z

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Posted By: Paul S

Ted -- I tell you I love all those cards, and for some reason Johnny "The Big Cat" (great nickname!) Mize's face probably sticks with me most through all these years...since I started collecting them in the 60s. What a puss!