Swap The Color

Topps Heritage has been known to pay tribute to their previous designs and history of cardboard in a way that many fans young and old enjoy.

Sometimes the number of parallel error and variations to chase may get annoying, but this is one card release I greatly enjoy the chase for all of them.

1969 had several known printing errors that caused variations to chase in their,release.  One of the more famous was the player name color swaps.

As you can see from the 1969 Topps Gaylord Perry card has two versions to chase.  Images supplied by TCDB.  The yellow last name is the corrected version, while the white version is the lesser available version.

The same can be said for many other players including Reggie Jackson.

Topps paid tribute to these color swaps by making a team name color swap in their 2018 Heritage High Number release.

Above you can see the white team name color swap version next to the base.

The back makes the color swap version known by placing an identifier of the parallel by the card number.

89 cents > $54

I haven't been picking up Cutch cards anywhere close to the way I was getting them for the past 3 years.  I used to average a card a day in the mail.

The lack of physical cards ending up in my mailbox hasn't stopped me from continuously looking for great deals though.

For some reason there seems to be unknown short print cards of Cutch each year.

2016 Allen & Ginter relics come to mind as does this Target exclusive 2018 Heritage High Number insert.

Being a retail exclusive definitely makes it tougher to get, but the difference between what some people who know how rare this card is compared to those that don't is mind blowing.

On one scale you have one being sold for $54.

On the other scale you have one that finished at $0.89

So how did I do for my 89 cent winning bid?

Seeing Doubles

I have discussed how Topps often uses Cutch when recognizing Roberto Clemente from older sets.  You can see my first Heritage Comparison post here.

Here's another example

And another example

The more recent cards of Cutch are similar design to the 1968 Topps Game pieces.

Here's 2016 nonDread Cutch compared to 2014 dreads Cutch in 5x7 format

And here's the gold 2014 5x7

With the backs of the 5x7s below