The Topps Relic Room
January 28th, 2008 by AlexHere’s an interesting interview with a Topps Representative about the process of making a Relic Card. He takes you inside the Topps Relic Room where the Game Used relics that Topps uses to make cards are stored.
The Topps Sterling Barry Bonds Jumbo Swatch Card with the hat logo seen in the video has turned up on eBay. Click the picture below to see the auction.
The logo is a bit scrunched on the left side which is unfortunate. I don’t think its a fake though because the piece of hat from the video is also cut very close to the left side of the logo.
A similar card sold on eBay for $548. The cut on this piece is much better. Maybe Topps felt bad for screwing up the first one and decided to cut another hat?
The use of hat patches is an interesting idea. I know there have been cards with hat pieces before but I’ve never seen a full logo. I haven’t seen any other Topps Sterling Jumbo Swatches with hat patches either. Its probably a lot less cost effective than cutting up a jersey.
I do hope more of these hat logo cards start turning up though. I would pay a huge chunk of change for an A-Rod NY Yankees hat logo Jumbo Swatch.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
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