New in the Gallery: 1960 Topps Metallic Stickers
November 23rd, 2009 | Published in Inserts, New in the Gallery
Last week I added 1960 Topps Metallic Stickers to the Vintage Football Card Gallery. As I wrote in I is for Inserts, these were inserts in packs of 1960 Topps football cards. The set includes the 13 NFL teams of the day, along with 20 colleges.
The stickers aren’t pretty. Their foil finish is nice if it’s not scuffed, but it scuffs easily, and mine look beat up. The logos on the NFL stickers are poor approximations of the teams’ official logos. (Compare them to the 1960 NFL logos at sportslogos.net.) The logos on the college stickers don’t resemble the colleges’ official logos at all. The printing and cutting quality is also poor: many of mine are miscut, and the coloring applied to the stickers often isn’t aligned with the outlines of the letters and drawings.
Oh well. The metallic finish was innovative for its day; it’s just unfortunate that the stickers aren’t more attractive. I suppose the kids who bought them in 1960 didn’t mind. I’ll probably pick up the last few to finish my set, but I don’t anticipate upgrading them.
If I haven’t dissuaded you from buying them yet, you can usually find some on eBay.
