Sunday, April 10, 2022

One card only - Swing-o like Van Gogh

Card Number 996: Pinnacle Museum Collection, 1995; #291

This is a parallel version of the base card from the 'Swingmen' subset. It has a 'dufex' finish. Because of the subset design this card takes on a really trippy painted effect with the finish.


I took another scan of this using the overhead scanner. The swirliness really comes alive with more intensity.


The blue and purple swirling really reminds me of some of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings. The 'bumpiness' (technical term) of the dufex finish adds to the feeling that it's painted on. 

On the back, the 'Museum Collection' logo has been added, in case someone didn't realise this card was different to the Pinnacle base cards! The kerning of "1995" above the word Museum is too stretched for my liking. The photo of Tony has him looking right down the camera lens. He doesn't look like he will take any messing about from the photographer.


Back in 1995, the Museum Collection would have been a reasonably tricky parallel set to complete. These cards were inserted 1 in every 4 packs. However, I acquired mine from Jason in Rhode Island - thanks Jason!

Total: 996 cards

1 comment:

  1. This is probably my favorite all around Pinnacle set. The base Gwynn in the set is a great looking card and a different kind of trippy.

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