In the grand tradition of Sesame Street, today's blog post is brought to you by the letter M.
Card Number 593: Topps Milestones, 1998; #MS6
A beautiful blue holofoil insert card from Topps.
There were 8 cards in this insert series, printed on canvas effect card with the images put through the 'paint effect' feature of Photoshop.
At the bottom of the cardback is the serial numbering. This is number 701 out of 5,000. While that's only half the number of limited edition serial numbered Diamond Kings cards from the same year, it's still a high number of cards to consider a 'limited edition'.
The paintbrush and blob of blue paint confused me at first glance. I thought Tony was flipping away a bat. It's a nod to the idea of brush strokes on a masterpiece painting. It feels like by the mid-90s card companies were running out of words to use on insert series. Leaf chose Masterstrokes, even though that doesn't really mean anything to do with art or painting.
Total: 594 cards
5,000 is high for today... but back in the 90's that Masterstrokes card would have been a sweet pull.
ReplyDeleteIt's still a nice card and tbh I like numbered cards, however high the number.
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