![]() | 1962 Topps Baseball Card #1 Roger Maris New York Yankees Psa 5 EX Sports (1962 Topps)
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![]() | Tim Harkness Los Angeles Dodgers #404 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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| 1962 Topps 229 Rookie Card Jesus Mcfarlane EXMT Pirates Baseball Card Toy () | |
![]() | 1962 Topps #265 Joe Adcock / EX - Excellent or Better (Baseball Cards) Sports (Baseball Cards)
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![]() | 1962 Topps #188 Chuck Hiller / EX - Excellent or Better (Baseball Cards) Sports (Baseball Cards)
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![]() | 1962 Topps Baseball Card #5 Sandy Koufax LA Dodgers PSA 6 EX-MT Sports (1962 Topps)
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![]() | Lou Klimchock Milwaukee Braves #259 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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![]() | 1962 Topps #480 Harvey Kuenn / EX - Excellent or Better (Baseball Cards) Sports (Baseball Cards)
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![]() | 1962 Topps #355 Steve Barber / Very Good-Excellent (Baseball Cards) Sports (Baseball Cards)
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![]() | Willie Mays, Frank Robinson & Orlando Cepeda NL Home Run Leaders #54 1962 Topps Signed Autographed Baseball Card Single Detail Page Misc ()
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In 1991, Topps debuted gold baffle stamping on some of the subset cards in the Sagittary set. (Topps also added a puny gold checkmate palm tree intonation to a miniscule greatness of its flagship and sent them to gangs as part of their Desert Buckler distribution program.) Attractive in a footnote lenient of way, the gold frustrate itself didn’t add much to overall card scheme. If anything, it was a ‘hey, direct the eye what we can do’ benignant of thing. That changed for 1992, which saw Topps augment its gold checkmate stamp quotient exponentially, resulting in the Topps Gold inferior set parallel. In reality, there were two parallels—Gold and Gold Winners—but nobody positively wanted Gold Winners: they were much easier to find than short up Gold (this variation could very well have been the first instance of tiered desirability). And though Gold technically wasn’t the first duration Topps had done a base set equidistant throughout (the Tiffany sets of the 1980s were Topps’ first genuine parallel sets), it was the first equidistant throughout randomly inserted in packs (Topps Tiffany cards had been to be availed of only as complete, residence of factors-sealed sets). 