Topps revived their premium card range called Gold Label in 2016. It's a strange set, with three different 'classes' of card released for each player, with a different photo on each one, which turns a 100-card set into a 300-card set straightaway.
I acquired these cards from Graham M in the UK collectors Facebook group.
Card Number 510: Topps Gold Label (class 3), 2019; #92
In 2019 the class 1 card showed Tony running, the class 2 card showed him batting in a 1984 uniform, and the class 3 card looked like this:
Card Number 512: Topps Gold Label (class 3), 2020; #81
And the class 3 cards show him on the move between bases.
Although the 'classes' is a bit gimmicky, I'm not going to complain if Topps are going to dig into their photo archive and use uncommon photos for these cards. There aren't many cards with Tony wearing the early 80s brown Padres uniform, so it's a welcome addition to the collection.
The cardback is exactly the same. I'm only showing it for the sake of completeness!Sets like this are one of the reasons why the number of Tony Gwynn cards has proliferated over recent years. The multiple parallels of these cards are all counted as released cards on Trading Card Database, pushing the number of available cards ever-upwards. Add in some low numbered memorabilia cards as well and it's all more cards for collectors to collect!
Total: 512 cards
I loved Gold Label back in the late 90's and was happy to see them bring it back in 2016. I just wish they didn't produce it every year. Maybe release it once every five or six years.
ReplyDeleteThat would probably be a good idea with a lot of Topps sets. The quality is getting thinly spread these days.
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