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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Was any Topps issue after that hand drawn? I don't think any other 50s Topps were drawn, but I lost track after that. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Chris Counts
Thankfully, Topps apparently ditched the artist who looked like he was trying to copy the artistic style of the 1950-52 Bowmans (he never came close to matching it). Almost all of Topps' later efforts used either color photos or tinted black and white photos, although it's clear some painting was done on the 1955 and 1956 sets in particular. Also, the 1959 set features the "Baseball Thrills" series, which is clearly painted. There were scattered painted cards issued in many Topps sets up until at least 1962 (not tinted, but painted). |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Joe D.
The artist who created the artwork for an early Mickey Mantle card for Topps (1952?) was at a card show years ago - signing autographs on an 8x10 of the card. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: jay behrens
How can you critisize the guy for his artistic ability when he made Yogi Berra look so good? |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
Topps commisioned the artist Jerry Dvorak to paint the paintings used to make the 1953 Topps set. Dvorak was also an artist for Paramount Cartoons, which made movie cartoons like Casper the Ghost and Little LuLu. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
So then, as far as we know the '53 Topps set is the last set manufactured by Topps to have every card drawn/painted except for perhaps some recent unidentified set(s); correct? Thats darn near 50 years of photo based cards. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
Excluding the Pre-War cards, paintings tend to look dumb on cards. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Agreed, but I would include a great many pre-war as well. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: edacra
Redman's are another great set that's all illustration work. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
I agree. I prefer photo cards, but likely hastily dismissed some good painting and drawing sets. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
GIL |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
Ted, that's interesting that your card was used. Collectors can find prints of the painting of your card that are autographed by Mantle. I beleive they were officially made to be signed by Mantle, though I can't remember who originally marketed them. If a collector can't afford the painting, he or she can purchase the print. Board members can say, "I didn't know Mantle or the painter, but I knew the guy who owned the card." |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
David |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
I don't have an image, but you will see them offered for sale with some regularity. As Mantle autographed them, the have good value. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Mr. Rudd: I have never gotten into autograph collecting, but can appreciate some of the attractiveness of it. Last week, precipitated in part by one of your previous statements regarding the relative bargain status of '30s MLB autographs, I checked some on eBay. I noted a substantial difference in price between autographs on original cards when compared with the same autograph on a reprint (~2X$). What impact would you estimate an autograph on a copy of a painting of an original card - as is being discussed here, would have? Lesser than an autographed original card, I would guess, but greater than a reprint. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
For the print of the card painting, most of the value is that it was autogrpaphed by Mantle. The print itself would have minor value. |
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1953 Topps - was a hand drawn set
Posted By: davidcycleback
For Gil, Leroy Neiman's limited edition seriagraph's screen prints of famous athletes, from Roger Clemens to Ali, are expensive on their own-- but are more valuable if signed by the athlete. In part, it expands the potential buyer audience as it is not an athlete autographed item. |
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